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Simon Harrison
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http://www.beckerharrison.com

Simon Harrison, is a British artist who started out in comics at 2000 AD before diversifying.

Biography[edit]

Comics[edit]

Harrison joined 2000 AD in 1987, at a time when there was a changing of the guard,[1] starting on a series of Tharg's Future Shocks. One of these, "Alternators" written by Alan McKenzie, would introduce the character Bradley,[2] who would go on to star in his own eponymous series. Harrison would continue to draw the series throughout his time at 2000 AD.

In another with Future Shock the following year, he illustrated a story by John Smith and the two would go on to collaborate on the series Revere. According to Smith "Revere was more of a collaboration than most of the strips I'd written. Simon had created this great-looking character and backdrop. I wrote a story where he could show off his art to its full effect. I think it's amazing - weird and dreamy and totally unlike anyone else out there."[3]

Alongside these he would also work on Strontium Dog with Alan Grant, drawing the first part of "Final Solution", a story that would go on, with artist Colin MacNeil, to kill the lead character Johnny Alpha. He also provided the art for the spin-off series Strontium Dogs, the second story was published in September 1995, his last work on the comic.

He would return to comics in 1998 with a story in Warhammer Monthly and again in 2010 with a graphic novel written by David Mayer de Rothschild.

Martial arts[edit]

Harrison is a black belt in Shaolin Ngor Chor Kung Fu and is a fully-trained instructor, experience he drew on for his book Kung Fu for Girls.[4][5]

Fine art[edit]

"now he largely creates pieces or series in response to what he sees as an environmental crisis and the need to counter the consumer excess and damage we are doing to the planet." He exhibited the work at The Gallery @ Adventure Ecology, in conjunction with de Rothschild's organisation Adventure Ecology.[6][7] He held another exhibition at Todd's Gallery in June 2007.[8]

Most recently he has been working with photographer Carolin Becker, who he first met when he taught her martial arts. They print her photographs off and he then alters them by hand using a spray can.[9][10][11]

Bibliography[edit]

Comics[edit]

Comics work includes:

  • Tharg's Future Shocks:
    • "With a Bang" (with Alex Stewart, in 2000 AD #522, May 1987)
    • "The Junkyard Shift" (with Alan McKenzie, in 2000 AD #532, July 1987)
    • "Alternators" (with Alan McKenzie, in 2000 AD #533, August 1987)
    • "Occupational Hazard" (with R. Corona, in 2000 AD #539, September 1987)
    • "Tourist Season" (with Mike Collins, in 2000 AD #544, October 1987)
    • "No Exit" (with John Smith, in 2000 AD #559, January 1988, collected in The Best of Tharg's Future Shocks, 160 pages, November 2008, ISBN 1-905437-81-1)
    • "Conquering the Galaxy on $10 a Day" (with Philip Barber, in 2000 AD #568, April 1988)
  • Bradley (with Alan McKenzie):
    • "Bradley's Birthday" (in 2000 AD #545, October 1987)
    • "Bradley and the Bandit" (in 2000 AD #552, December 1987)
    • "Bradley's Xmas" (in 2000 AD #554, December 1987)
    • "Bradley & the Toboggan Race" (in 2000 AD #606, December 1988)
    • "Bradley Visits His Granpappy" (in 2000 AD #660, January 1990)
    • "Bradley Meets Jason Donovan (almost)" (in 2000 AD #661, January 1990)
    • "Bradley Goes Gothic" (in 2000 AD #666, February 1990)
    • "Bradley Goes Gigging" (in 2000 AD #670, March 1990)
    • "Bradley Goes Mental" (in 2000 AD #682, June 1990)
    • "Bradley & the Social Worker" (in 2000AD Winter Special 1990, November 1990)
    • "Bradley's Bedtime Stories" (in 2000 AD #795-799, August–September 1992)
    • "Bedtime stories Book" (in 2000 AD #825-827, March 1993)
    • "The Sprog Prince" (in 2000 AD #885-888, April–May 1994)
    • "Master of the Martial Arts" (in 2000 AD #901-903, August–September 1994)
    • "Bradley & the Baby Sitter" (in 2000AD Yearbook 1995, September 1994)
  • Strontium Dog (with Alan Grant):
    • "The No-Go Job" (in 2000 AD #580–587, June–August 1988, collected in Strontium Dog: Search/Destroy Agency Files 04, 352 pages, January 2008, ISBN 1-905437-51-X)
    • "The Final Solution, Part 1" (in 2000 AD #600–606, 615–621, 636–641, 645–647, November 1988 – October 1989, collected in Strontium Dog: The Final Solution, 160 pages, May 2008, ISBN 1-905437-63-3)
  • "Rainbow Café" (script and art, in Crisis #58, May 1991)
  • Revere (with John Smith, collected in Extreme Edition #20, February 2007):
    • "Book I" (in 2000 AD #744-749, August–September 1991)
    • "Book II" (in 2000 AD #809-814, November–December 1992)
    • "Book III" (in 2000 AD #867-872, December 1993 – January 1994)
  • Strontium Dogs:
    • "Dead Man's Hand" (with Garth Ennis, in 2000AD Yearbook 1993, September 1992)
    • "The Mutant Sleeps Tonight" (with Peter Hogan, in 2000 AD #957, September 1995)
  • Shadowfast (with Michael Browne, in Warhammer Monthly #7-13, September 1998 - March 1999)
  • The Boy, The Girl the Tree (with David Mayer de Rothschild, graphic novel, 96 pages, Fal Enterprises, April 2010, ISBN 0984304703)

Books[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Bishop 2007a, p. 120: "the star creators of past years were no longer willing to devise new strips for the comic. 2000 AD had to use new talent, and hope that they would deliver the next generation of great stories and art"
  2. ^ Bishop 2007b, p. 120: "A Future Shock in Prog 533 introduced Bradley, a tearaway tot created by McKenzie and Simon Harrison that was soon given his own series"
  3. ^ Bishop 2007, p. 147.
  4. ^ "Simon Harrison". Random House. Archived from the original on 2 April 2009. Retrieved 14 April 2012. He has been graded by Grandmaster Chee Kim Thong and master Kim S Han of the Nan Shaolin Wuzu Quan Association and is currently second-degree black belt in Shaolin Ngor Chor Kung Fu.
  5. ^ Kirwan-Taylor, Helen (6 October 2003). "How to bring out the Lara Croft in you". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
  6. ^ "Emerging Artist Of The Week: Simon Harrison". Saatchi Online Magazine. 26 October 2006. Retrieved 14 April 2012. Simon Harrison's exhibition inaugurates a new gallery on Charing Cross Road in London's West End called The Gallery @ Adventure Ecology. Adventure Ecology was founded in 2005 by David de Rothschild and is fast becoming a leading online educational resource focused on tackling the real issues surrounding the relationship between people and the environment.
  7. ^ Jones, Nina (4 January 2007). "Green Backer". Women's Wear Daily. Retrieved 14 April 2012. de Rothschild has opened The Gallery @ Adventure Ecology on bustling Charing Cross Road here. Its first exhibition featured a series of cartoonish line drawings by artist Simon Harrison, who previously worked on "2000AD," a British sci-fi comic. The drawings depicted characters such as Agent Waste, a mutant who's at war with a band of Eco-Pirates, plastic dogs and hybrid humans and robots.
  8. ^ "Odd-Cuts And Heroes: Leigh Dyer and Simon Harrison". Todd's Gallery. June 2007. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
  9. ^ "Becker Harrison". LSD Magazine. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
  10. ^ Steward, Sue (6 October 2010). "Street life captured in colour and light by Becker Harrison". This Is London. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
  11. ^ McKnight-Abrams, Amah-Rose. "What a Difference a Day Makes". Dazed Digital. Retrieved 14 April 2012.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

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