ROGER LANGRIDGE

New Zealand-born artist Roger Langridge is the creator of Fred the Clown, whose online comic strip appears weekly at www.hotelfred.com. Fred also shows up in print three times a year in Fred the Clown comics. With his brother Andrew, Roger’s first comics series was Zoot! published in 1988 and recently reissued as Zoot Suite. Other titles followed, including Knuckles, The Malevolent Nun and Art d'Ecco. Roger’s work has also appeared in numerous magazines in Britain, the U.S., France and Japan, including Deadline, Judge Dredd, Heavy Metal, Comic Afternoon, Gross Point and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight. His version of Eldorado was featured in Graphic Classics: Edgar Allan Poe, he adapted Master, a rare Doyle poem in Graphic Classics: Arthur Conan Doyle, and he collaborated with writer Mort Castle on The Call of Jack London, for Graphic Classics: Jack London. Another collaboration with writer Carl Posey onan illustrated biography of Poe appeared in Rosebud 19. Called “insanely hardworking,” Roger now lives in London, where he divides his time between comics, children’s books and commercial illustration.

Rosebud Issue #19
136 pages, $8