The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes: Steve Sampson

Welcome to the thirty-eighth of The Lockdown Tapes as The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast the joys of Thrill-power during the COVID-19 pandemic! Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.com

With his pop art sensibilities, and use of photo references and bold colours, Steve Sampson’s work was a regular fixture of the Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000 AD in the 1990s; starting with Brit-Cit Babes and then creating a significant body of work on the Judge Anderson series, Sampson’s style had both fans and detractors. The Thrill-Cast talks to him about his life and career, from ditching art college to illustrating for men’s magazines, from working in a sheet metal factory to moving into the video games industry.

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