Roger Langridge

Roger Langridge (born 14th February 1967) is a comics writer, artist, letterer and colourist from New Zealand who lives and works in the UK. best known for his self published work, such as Fred the Clown, he has nonetheless worked for numerous publishers in both Britain and America. He has drawn The Straitjacket Fits for Judge Dredd Megazine, Judge Dredd, Lawman of the Future for the comic of the same name, and Time Flies for 2000 AD, as well as having had a lengthy relationship with the ongoing Doctor Who strip in Doctor Who Magazine which he has been drawing on and off since 1998. For Marvel in America, he has drawn Thor and the Fin Fang Four, for DC, Batman, for IDW, Popeye, and for Boom! Studios, The Muppet Show. He has also drawn Knuckles the Malevolent Nun and Frankestein meets Shirley Temple for A1, worked on Tank Girl Magazine, and scripted Mandrake the Magician for Dynamite Entertainment. Langridge has strong (negative) views on the prevalence of "dark" comics in recent years and generally declines projects not to his taste; he turned down the offer of a Wolverine one-shot for Marvel because, he says, he finds the character "repugnant on every level", describing his creation as "the point where Marvel stopped being about 'with great power comes great responsibility', and started being about 'with great power comes carte blanche to disembowel anyone who looks at you funny' ".