The Helltrekkers

About Alan GrantJohn Wagner

John Wagner has been scripting for 2000 AD for more years than he cares to remember. His creations include Judge Dredd Strontium Dog Ace Trucking Als Baby Button Man and Mean Machine. Outside of 2000 AD his credits include Star Wars Lobo The Punisher and the critically acclaimed A History of Violence.With over 300 2000 AD stories to his name not to mention over 250 Daily Star Judge Dredd strips Alan Grants prolific creative record speaks for itself. Outside the Galaxys Greatest Comic Grant is well-known to Batman fans following a lengthy run on various incarnations of the title. More recently he has adapted Robert Louis Stevensons classic novels Kidnapped and Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde in Graphic Novel format with artist Cam Kennedy.José Ortiz Moyas sixty plus year career began after he won a contest which ran in the Spanish magazine Chicos. In the 1950s he worked on many digest strips for Editorial Maga including Capitan Don Nadie Pantera Negra and Jungla. Agency work saw him produce several strips for foreign publishers particularly in Britain where he illustrated Caroline Barker Barrister at Law for the Daily Express Smokeman and UFO Agent for Eagle magazine and the Phantom Viking in Lion. In the seventies and eighties Ortiz worked on several British popular strips including The Tower King and House of Daemon for the new Eagle Rogue Trooper and Judge Dredd for 2000 AD and The Thirteenth Floor for Scream! which he co-created with John Wagner and Alan Grant. Whilst doing all of this work on UK kids comics in the US Ortiz was also working on and is arguably best known for illustrating several stories for Warrens horror titles including Eerie and Vampirella.