Comments on: Mick (Mike) McMahon

By: Steve Colgan

Steve Colgan — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:01:41 +0000

I just met Mick at the UK Comic Convention … check out his sketches on my blog: http://stevecolgan.blogspot.com/2007/10/real-superheroes-are-off-page.html

By: Sean Phillips

Sean Phillips — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:02:36 +0000

Mike will be one of the guests at the Birmingham Comic Show on 13th and 14th of October.

By: Li-An

Li-An — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:16:42 +0000

As you said, European influences. Very rare for comics artists and even in Europe you see less and less young artists influenced by these ones.

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:44:17 +0000

You may be right, Li-An, some Jose Munoz, maybe some Hugo Pratt and other European comics artists mixed in with the influence from other UK artists. I don’t see that much influence from mainstream American comics artists.

By: Li-An

Li-An — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:21:19 +0000

I do not know his work. Very interesting -some Munoz influence in black and white.

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:01:50 +0000

I agree that it’s unfortunatel if UK comics artists have to take on other jobs to make ends meet; although, for those of us in the US, it’s sometimes nice that UK artists will take on jobs from the comics companies here and we get to see their work.

By: peter w

peter w — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:10:06 +0000

Ahhh wonderful stuff, Charley. There’s no doubt to me that Mike McMahon’s influence on comics art and popular culture in general was absolutely seismic, and it’s such a relief these days to see the man finally being paid his due. I think that it’s probably true to say that his brief stint on ‘Slaine’ elevated McMahon into that very special group of the absolute European elite, up there with Giraud, Druillet, Pratt and the rest, and it just seems a tragedy to me that we’ve never really had the comics industry here in the UK to properly support that kind of astonishing talent. Mike McMahon is the reason I draw today.

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:38:10 +0000

Thanks, Simon.

Folks might also try a Google image search for both “Mick McMahon” and “Mike McMahon”.

By: Sim-r

Sim-r — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:35:20 +0000

FANTASTIC…..cheers for the website link .
Mike has had an overwhelming influence on me over the years particularly in the way he uses shape and angles in such a bold and intentional manner .Each world had it’s own laws and everything in those worlds obeyed them .Dynamite stuff .
His Slaine work is fantastic , particularly the flying druid ships etc .Probably the biggest impression he made on me was with “The last american ” .I did not understand what he was trying to do when I was younger but as the years progressed my eyes opened .I think the guy is just genius .

Cheers Charley and Pj for the links .
Everyone should check out pj’s work also - another extremely talented contributor to the well noted UK comics scene.

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:33:40 +0000

Cool. Thanks, PJ! Other readers should check out PJ Holden's blog and portfolio, which contains some of his own work for Judge Dredd.