But for those two I’ve gone out of my way to read them in collected comic-book format and could probably go toe-to-toe in trivia with relatively die-hard fans. I’ve owned precisely zero issues in my life and I’d have trouble naming many of the strips that have run throughout the years, except for my two favourite. I can’t, hand on heart, tell you all that I’m a big 2000 a.d fan. So how did I know what to draw? I have no idea: but this little anecdote illustrates how incredibly pervasive that comic was in the youth culture of 80’s Britain. It was Judge Dredd, although I couldn’t have named it as such back then, having never seen a copy of 2000 a.d., the comic where his strips were printed. It was a human figure with a black helmet, visor pulled down over the eyes, with distinct knee, shoulder and elbow pads and a big triangular golden badge on one side of its chest. I remember it because I was very proud of what I drew and went to show my Mum, even though neither of us entirely knew what it was that I’d sketched out. When I was very small - before school-age, probably - I can vividly remember being bored one day and sitting down to do a drawing with some felt-tip pens.
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