Gallery Comments by Andrew Mcilwaine

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Original Cover for Crisis #25 1989 & Le Fardeau de L'Homme Noir graphic novel - uncoloured
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/17/2014
This is my all time personal favourite piece by john,love the fear and loathing in ryans expression.

PANDORA -
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/13/2014
the pandora stuff is real wildstyle,i remember as a 17/18 yr old back in the mid 90`s i would hoover up a few poodles legs of sulphate and let rip on a sheet of a2 or a3 with pencil and pen and whatever other mark making implements i could get my paws on,the results were nowhere near as spectacular as johns stuff but i had bloody good fun anyway!....kids dont try this at home! speed puts worms in your ears!

MEAN MACHINE - poster, Judge Dredd Megazine Vol 3 No.1 (A2)
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/13/2014
yo people,theres a selection of rather fine johnny prints for sale on the animal monday website!...... my families off to the people traffickers and the family silvers getting pawned.....wouldn`t you!

MEAN MACHINE - poster, Judge Dredd Megazine Vol 3 No.1 (A2)
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/13/2014
oh ya f***in` dancer!(celtic expression of unbridled joy) i`ve just found a complete collection of crisis,so i`ll be having them as well,just for johns work you understand,my copies being long scattered to the mists of time......you can get used to darkness and foods overrated anyway!

MEAN MACHINE - poster, Judge Dredd Megazine Vol 3 No.1 (A2)
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/13/2014
i just got myself on ebay and i found a complete set of johns zombie world comics with pat mills,needless to say i ordered them and they should be arriving soon!...can`t wait! i`ve never seen that stuff.I would have let my loved ones starve and go without electricity for a week to buy them! but they understand and we`ve seen a few ray mears programmes on tv so we can forage for food and build an adequate shelter,we`ll survive! i took the day off work to search for them...bollocks to the boss!

Coppertop
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/13/2014
i`ve just remembered that i saw some of johns work "back in the day" in a booklet that came with a cd i think it was called trans europe express i think it accompanied a tune called "kaned" i certainly was at that point in time! so my memory on that score may be a little hazy!

Gutted Devil
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/13/2014
beautiful!

Pandora - Dredd Mega Special #7
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/13/2014
thats what i call a kick in the nuts!....this page is a peach!

Devolution of Man
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/13/2014
this piece is special!....we aint really changed very much since we crawled out of the caves!...love it!

Torturer 2001 (Extrem)
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/13/2014
Oh my days..what can i say about this one....heres johnny!...priceless!

Dredd sketch
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/13/2014
it`s a real treat for someone who only ever saw john`s work in print to see his working process,you can really see that he approached his work instinctively as indeed all the best artists do

Spring-heeled Jack
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/13/2014
this image is so perverse! you can really feel the joy john took in creating his magical mind warping artwork!

Pandora - Meg #79 "Mural Scream" (in Judge Dredd Megazine (vol. 2) #77–81, April–June 1995)
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/13/2014
I really feel that the message in johns art and indeed his life was very much one of empowerment in the face of the most awful circumstances,there is such poignancy to these images,massive respect due to his wife,behind every strong man theres a strong woman!

Dredd painting: Cover, Judge Dredd Meg #35
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/13/2014
yeah! this is definitely truly dredd,voodoo magic man!

Pandora - EP3 Page 2 Meg #77
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/13/2014
I still have the magazines that this story was published in,and to this day i dont think i ever actually read the story,i just grooved off the artwork getting lost in the line,he was the graphic equivalent of william burroughs! a real assault on the senses

Monkey Beat - Page 5
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/13/2014
I remember when john`s work on dredd was published back in 93 various timid and blinkered souls who perused the megazine wrote in whining that johns work was giving their granny kittens and their kittens conniptions etc,and by way of response john wrote a really eloquent and articulate piece about the real global savagery that was taking place at the time,that message which he so brilliantly distilled into 100 months is even more relevant and urgent 20 years on,the guy was a visionary,a modern day william blake!

Black Man's Burden, Crisis Issue 35
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/13/2014
John must have been relatively young when he did this work, 21 or 22 or thereabouts,i think theres a real quality of insight into the dark side of human nature,a depth of emotional honesty. you look at ryans face and you can see the reptile in the eyes,see the demons boiling beneath the skin and smell the vodka on his breath! If johns inspector ryan caught you smoking a spliff he`d probably fit you up with a bag of brown as well and you can be sure of a good kicking in the cells "slipped down the stairs in the custody suite m`lud" when i read irvine welshes "filth" i had ryan in mind!

Pandora Ep3 Page 3
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/12/2014
love the judges face in this page,its like Orwells comment "if you want a picture of the future imagine a jackboot stamping on the human face for ever" its the face of the new world order,chilling!

Coppertop
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/12/2014

Claire Hicklenton said:
Johnny spent some time in the studio with Killing Joke in 2009, if you listen to their last album there is a heavy Johnny/100 Months influence (Long Pig, Great Cull, Suicide Tribe). At some point I'll upload some of the artwork he did while he was sat in the studio.

I love killing joke,seen em live several times up here in glasgow,oddly enough i had picked up on the link between 100 months and that album,but i had thought it was a case of genius round the world stands hand in hand and the shock of recognition runs the whole circle round,great minds think alike etc..thats a great piece of history,and thank you so much for sharing it,I recall he did a portrait of jaz coleman in nemesis

Coppertop
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/12/2014
If memory serves I believe Pat Mills stated in the introduction to the titan books collection of johns nemesis work that his stuff was like wild electronic music,only hicklenton`s art could provoke synasthaesia! as i look at this stuff I can hear early killing joke and skinny puppy,I really love this image

Black Man's Burden
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/12/2014
I vividly recall when I first saw this stuff in print circa 89,school took a back seat as I rushed out and got myself an a2 art pad and a few rotring rapidographs...that was me hooked,it`s an honour to finally see the black and white linework as the reproduction in the original comic was very murky and blurry,powerful stuff!...i remember he did some wonderful standalone images for deadline magazine,i think they were named "aggresiva" possibly after the front 242 tune of the same name I showed `em to my art teachers at secondary school and they were freaked! i think i got expelled shortly after!...best career move I ever made!

SLAINE Sketch A2
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/12/2014
Gorgeous pencils,I am a Celt and for me this is the definitive Slaine......Simon who!

Crisis - Third World War Book IV: The Final Problem Page 2
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/12/2014
I loved Johns take on the psychopathic Inspector Ryan,his third world war stuff was a massive personal influence,like Albrecht Durer on acid...wicked stuff!

MEAN MACHINE - poster, Judge Dredd Megazine Vol 3 No.1 (A2)
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/12/2014
I recall seeing this piece on the "heres Johhny" documentary.....jesus h christ its awesome! has a machine ever looked so mean!

SLAINE Sketch A2
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/12/2014
I recall during a phone conversation way back in 1990 John saying that there was a possibility of him working on Slaine,it was a big regret that i never got to see it,now i have and it was well worth the wait,fairly stirs my celtic blood!..Thank you so very much to his wife for posting these beautiful images we need more of this energy on the planet

SPIDERMAN
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/12/2014
I recall reading about this piece that john was asked to tone down the genitalia but would not compromise his vision to suit the sensibilities of the editors....you`ve gotta love the integrity,it`s what made the guys art so powerful so primal and so passionate,i`m having my eyes peeled open once again! love it!

Nuclear Family
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/12/2014
I`m having this printed on a t-shirt...I`m in heaven!

Torturer 2001 (Extrem)
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/12/2014
John Hicklenton lives on!....this is food for the soul,magic!

Torturer 2001 (Extrem)
Owner: Claire Hicklenton

Comment posted on 1/11/2014
Wow....what can i say...classic Hicklenton,dark disturbing and very beautiful.....marvellous!!!

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