Peter Milligan

Peter Milligan is an author of Cartoon Irish.

Biography

1986 : Peter Milligan begins his career of scenario writer of comics at 2000 A.D.. Quickly it has right has its first series, Bad Company, with the artists Brett Ewins and Brendan McCarthy. Bad Company is a history of Science-fiction which enables him to obtain a little popularity.

1987 : Peter Milligan, Brett Ewins and Brendan McCarthy work on Strange Days for Eclipse Comics. They carry out three numbers of these comics surrealist. The sales are not impressive, but the public is fidélisé.

1989 : Peter Milligan oscillates between the conventional comics, such Bad Company , and of more surrealist work for 2000 A.D. such as Hewligan' S Haircut with Jamie Hewlett. The same year, its first work at cd. Comics is published. Skreemer is a mini series of six numbers with drawings of Brett Ewins, it passes unperceived in the middle of the British invasion of the American comics. It is about a dark history of gangster under bottom of science fiction, criticism is good, but the sales do not follow. In spite of this, Peter Milligan has a place at cd. comics and starts to become a regular collaborator. In parallel, it continues to have a more personal production at 2000 A.D.

1990 : Peter Milligan envisages to carry out Skin with Brendan McCarthy, for Crisis, but the subject of controversy approached by the comics (history of a young person Skinhead under Thalidomide in the years 1970 with London) as well as the language used frightens the editor who refuses to print it. The history remained in the limbs of the cartoon before being finally published as a graphic novel at Tundra without there being of controversy. That remains one of work the most considered and acclaimed of Peter Milligan. The same year, cd. Comics requires of Peter Milligan revamper Shade, the Changing Man , a character created by Steve Ditko. This passage is regarded as its more long intervention in American series, it marks the end of the first British wave of invasion in the comics. It adapted the character, updated good number of concepts of Steve Ditko and brought its own ideas to do one of the oddest titles published at cd.

1991 : It replaces Grant Morrison on Animal Man during six episodes. The same year, he becomes the scenario writer of Batman for Detective Comics . It is during one of the meetings of the scenario writers of Batman that Peter Milligan proposed the idea of what was going to become Knightfall , a crossover between all the titles of Batman. It does not take part, however not with its realization because its adventure on Detective Comics stops right front.

1993 : From number 33, Shade passes under the label Vertigo, it is one its first work in this collection. The sales are good, but the series is stopped with number 70. Since, a new history was published in 2003 for the ten years of Vertigo. For the same one, Peter Milligan created with Duncan Fegredo the series Enigma acclaimed by the public. It treats inter alia life of a super gay hero. Quickly, it connects on another series, The Extremist , drawn by Ted McKeever. These two series attack subjects taboos for an editor general practitioner, but were applauded for their manner of tackling the subject.

1995 : Always at Vertigo it carries out a mini series of Tank Girl with its creator Jamie Hewlett in order to promote the exit of film of the same name.

1999 : Peter Milligan completes the decade with a mini series of four episodes, Human Target , regarded as his most conventional work at cd. Its popularity attracted to him the glance of many people who did not know his production.

2001 : Joe Quesada the new editor association of Marvel Comics revampe its line X-Men, X-Force is allotted to Peter Milligan starting from number 116. Upon the departure, the style emphatic of the super American hero of Rob Liefeld is put on side, the series is treated with a tone much more satirical. Peter Milligan and his draftsman Mike Allred replace traditional code names of the super heroes by names much more commercial, which make think of names of marks. The team is made up inter alia The Orphan, the Anarchist, U-Go Girl, Phat, Vivisector, Venus Dee Milo, Dead Girl and Doop. The fans highly criticized these changes, much claimed the return of " leur" X-force, a comment that Peter Milligan was going to turn in derision, some time later, in the series. In spite of criticisms, the title was well sold and even received warm welcome in Europe.

2003 : The Milligan time was acclaimed for its original point of view on the kind of the super hero. However the series X-Force stopped with number 129 to reappear the month following like X-Statix , always with Mike Allred with the drawings. It is over the X-Statix period that the controversy was strongest, when Peter Milligan considered a cycle in which the princess Diana would return to the life as a member of the X-Statix team. The news was quickly spread, especially in the British tabloïds which rejected the idea with force. Finally the character of Diana was modified like all the references to the British Royal family. In spite of this, the series was stopped with number 26, even if some collections were published.

2005 : Peter Milligan takes the queens of the series X-Men with El Salvador Larroca with the drawings until semi-2006. He writes also the scenarios for Human Target at Vertigo

2006 : For Marvel, Peter Milligan wrote a mini series of five episodes: X-Statix Present: Dead Girl , always in duet with Mike Allred with the drawings.

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