David Hitchcock (comics)

This article is about the comics writer David Hitchcock . For the painter David Hitchock, see D. Howard Hitchcock.

David Hitchcock
Nationality	English
Area(s)	Writer, Artist
Notable works	Springheeled Jack
Awards	"Favourite Black & White Comic Book - British" Eagle Award 2005
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David Hitchcock is an English comics writer and artist known mainly for his small press comics work - particularly his book Springheeled Jack, for which he won an Eagle Award in 2006.

Biography

Hitchcock wrote the 48 page one-shot Whitechapel Freak and the three-issue mini-series Springheeled Jack, both available from Full Circle Publications.

He has also worked with writers Leah Moore and John Reppion, on various short stories for Accent comics.

Recent projects include Gothic, a collection of short stories, some original and some previously published. He is also working on a short story for Boom! Studios' Cthulhu Tales with Shane Oakley. He is currently illustrating a two-volume graphic novel called Madam Samurai, with screenwriter Gary Young, whose credits include the film Harry Brown starring Michael Caine.

Bibliography

Comics work includes:

• Spirit of the Highwayman
• Whitechapel Freak: Who Was The Fiend Called Jack The Ripper (Full Circle Publications, 2004)
• Springheeled Jack (3-issue mini-series, Full Circle)

• Accent Anthologies (art, with Leah Moore and John Reppion):^[1]
  • "Lusca" (in Monsters, 2006)^[2]
  • "An Molethy a an Ny-marrow (The Curse of the Un-dead)" (in Zombies, 2007)^[3]
  • "Mrs. Henry" (in Western, 2009, forthcoming)

• Gothic (newspaper size collection of stories, 2008)
• "a whistle for the deep" (art, with writer Shane Oakley, in Cthulhu Tales #12, Boom! Studios, March 2009)
• Madam Samurai (art, with writer Gary Young, 2-volume graphic novel series, Scar Comics, 2010, forthcoming)

Awards

• 2005 won the "Favourite Black & White Comic Book - British" Eagle Award for Springheeled Jack ^[4]

Notes

1. ^ Accent Comics
2. ^ "Lusca" first page
3. ^ "An Molethy a an Ny-marrow" first page
4. ^ The Eagle Awards - Results

References

• David Hitchcock at the Grand Comics Database
• David Hitchcock at the Comic Book DB
• David Hitchcock at Barney

External links

• Black Boar Blogger
• Madam Samurai.com

Interviews

• Springheeled Jack Leaps Again!, Sequential Tart, July 2003

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