Roger Langridge
Roger Langridge is a New Zealand-born comics writer/artist/letterer, currently living in Britain.
He originally came to public prominence most notably with the Judge Dredd Megazine series The Straitjacket Fits (written by David Bishop), a surreal, hallucinatory, convention-bending strip set in an insane asylum with a cast of characters who by the end had realised that they were in a comic strip and had burst out from the edge of the frame.
Langridge’s cartoony art proved perfect for the series, and he has continued to work for the Megazine, in addition to a series of comedy books dedicated to his Buster Keaton-inspired character Fred the Clown, which he wrote and drew as a webcomic before self-publishing the material as small press titles. These were collected as a single volume by Fantagraphics Books in 2004. His work on Fred the Clown was nominated for two Eisner Awards, a Harvey Award, a Reuben Award and an Ignatz Award. Langridge also does illustration work.
He has also provided artwork for Shaenon Garrity's Smithson webcomic.
Bibliography
Comic work includes:
- Art d'Ecco (with Andrew Langridge, in Art d'Ecco #1-4, 1990-1992)
- Zoot! (with Andrew Langridge - six issue series, 1993-1994)
- Knuckles the Malevolent Nun (with Cornelius Stone, in Knuckles #1 & 2, 1991 and A1 (Series 1) #5, 1991)
- Frankenstein Meets Shirley Temple (in A1 (Series 2) #1-4, 1992)
- Judge Dredd:
- Sponts A-Go-Go (with Chris Standley and Paul Peart, Judge Dredd Lawman of the Future #14, 1996)
- Medusa (with Alan Barnes and Paul Peart, Judge Dredd Lawman of the Future #19-20, 1996)
- The Straitjacket Fits (with David Bishop):
- The Straitjacket Fits (in Judge Dredd Megazine #1.09-1.20, 1991-1992)
- The Final Fit (in Judge Dredd Yearbook 1993 1992)
- Batman:
- Auteurism (with John Arcudi, in Legends of the Dark Knight #162-163, 2003)
- Whatever Happened To?: Cookie (with Simon Spurrier, in Judge Dredd Megazine #2.17, 2004)
- Fett Club (with Kevin Rubio, in Star Wars Tales 24, 2005)
- Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang Four (with Scott Gray, 2005)
Also illustrated for Doctor Who magazine. He provided one panel humourous images for the Review section.