Charlie Adlard
Author of The Walking Dead: Compendium One
About the Author
Charlie Adlard is a comic book artist, known for his work on books such as The Walking Dead and Savage. His title The Walking Dead Volume 21: All Out War Part 2 made The New York Times Best Seller List. in 2014. The Walking Dead Volume 23: Whispers Into Screams made The New York Times Best Seller show more List. in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by Charlie Adlard
The Walking Dead, Volume 05: The Best Defense (2006) — Cover artist, some editions; Inker — 1,261 copies, 29 reviews
The Walking Dead, Volume 28: A Certain Doom (2017) — Illustrator; Cover artist, some editions — 246 copies, 10 reviews
The X-Files #11 - Feelings of Unreality, Part Two: The Ancient of Days (1995) — Illustrator — 9 copies
The X-Files #16 - Home of the Brave, Part Two: A Question of Ownership (1996) — Illustrator — 8 copies
The X-Files #12 - Feelings of Unreality, Part Three: The Nightmare of History (1996) — Illustrator — 8 copies
The X-Files #10 - Feelings of Unreality, Part One: Wheels Within Wheels (1995) — Illustrator — 8 copies
The X-Files #1 - Not to Be Opened Until X-Mas — Illustrator — 5 copies
Hellblazer vol. 13 1 copy
The Crow: Wild Justice 1 copy
Associated Works
The Big Book of the Weird Wild West: How the West was Really Won! (Factoid Books) (1998) — Illustrator — 117 copies
The Walking Dead [2003] #100 - Something to Fear, Part Four (2012) — Illustrator — 28 copies, 1 review
The Walking Dead [2003] #103 - Abandon All Hope, Part One (2012) — Illustrator — 23 copies, 1 review
The Walking Dead [2003] #106 - Abandon All Hope, Part Four (2013) — Illustrator — 21 copies, 1 review
The Walking Dead [2003] #108 - Abandon All Hope, Part Six (2013) — Illustrator — 20 copies, 1 review
The Walking Dead [2003] #099 - Something to Fear, Part Three (2012) — Illustrator — 19 copies, 1 review
The Walking Dead [2003] #097 - Something to Fear, Part One (2012) — Illustrator — 18 copies, 1 review
The Walking Dead [2003] #159 - The Whisperer War Part 3 of 6 (2016) — Illustrator — 16 copies, 1 review
The Walking Dead [2003] #128 - After All This Time, She Should Be More Prepared (2014) — Illustrator — 11 copies
The Walking Dead [2003] #129 - Even Now, They Find New Ways to Dispose of the Dead (2014) — Illustrator — 10 copies
The Walking Dead [2003] #130 - There Were Whispers and I Was Afraid (2014) — Illustrator — 10 copies
The X-Files Annual #1 - Hallow Eve (1995) — Penciler, Inker, some editions; Illustrator, some editions — 9 copies
The Walking Dead The Complete Season 1-6 — some editions — 4 copies
The Walking Dead 3 copies
Judge Dredd The Megazine # 53 (2.33) — Artist, some editions — 2 copies
The Walking Dead. 1 copy
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- 1966-04-08
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- comic book artist
- Awards and honors
- Comics Laureate (UK |2017-2019)
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
- Associated Place (for map)
- England, UK
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Reviews
Finally our long national nightmare is at an end. Finally no one has to read anymore Walking Dead comics.
I found this a volume of two halves. The first half was enlivened by the "Negan reforms" subplot, Negan being one of basically two characters I have ever given a shit about in this series.
But then Negan departs the series and it goes on to be more "Rick waffles about a thing." Rick's community discovers a massive society out in Ohio, but they are dystopian. I found a lot of this show more improbable. The first journey to the other society was very lengthy and protracted over weeks; by the end of the book, it felt like the characters were zipping back and forth in hours. (There's one bit where a group of characters comes to the rescue of another by coming a day later. Why would you decide one day after someone left to follow them in the case they needed help at the end of their weeks-long journey? And how come you couldn't get one group member to run a little faster and catch them up?) The new society has a rule that everyone automatically gets the same social status as they had before the zombie apocalypse... but like, why? And how would that be enforced? Why would everyone buy into it?
There's potential in finding a new group of survivors who did things differently than Rick and thus were more successful (usually they only find less successful groups), but as always Kirkman manages to strip the debate of all nuance by making the people with a different perspective slatheringly evil. And as always Rick seems like he's going to face a moral dilemma, but doesn't have to make an actual hard choice because events take it out of his hands.
The epilogue issue is dumb, too. Everyone venerates Rick, but I don't know why, because what useful thing did Rick ever actually do? In his final issue, Rick talks about how they can create a new society with potential to undue the mistakes of the old one... when we actually see the new society, it's just as shitty as ours. Well done, mate, you sure showed how good your values were.
Plus the revelation that the series's back cover blurb is an in-universe inscription on a statue of Rick is staggeringly stupid.
Anyway, I don't know why I staggered all the way to the end even though I never really liked this series except in short spurts, but it was always a quick read at least. You couldn't pay me to start watching the tv show, though. show less
I found this a volume of two halves. The first half was enlivened by the "Negan reforms" subplot, Negan being one of basically two characters I have ever given a shit about in this series.
But then Negan departs the series and it goes on to be more "Rick waffles about a thing." Rick's community discovers a massive society out in Ohio, but they are dystopian. I found a lot of this show more improbable. The first journey to the other society was very lengthy and protracted over weeks; by the end of the book, it felt like the characters were zipping back and forth in hours. (There's one bit where a group of characters comes to the rescue of another by coming a day later. Why would you decide one day after someone left to follow them in the case they needed help at the end of their weeks-long journey? And how come you couldn't get one group member to run a little faster and catch them up?) The new society has a rule that everyone automatically gets the same social status as they had before the zombie apocalypse... but like, why? And how would that be enforced? Why would everyone buy into it?
There's potential in finding a new group of survivors who did things differently than Rick and thus were more successful (usually they only find less successful groups), but as always Kirkman manages to strip the debate of all nuance by making the people with a different perspective slatheringly evil. And as always Rick seems like he's going to face a moral dilemma, but doesn't have to make an actual hard choice because events take it out of his hands.
The epilogue issue is dumb, too. Everyone venerates Rick, but I don't know why, because what useful thing did Rick ever actually do? In his final issue, Rick talks about how they can create a new society with potential to undue the mistakes of the old one... when we actually see the new society, it's just as shitty as ours. Well done, mate, you sure showed how good your values were.
Plus the revelation that the series's back cover blurb is an in-universe inscription on a statue of Rick is staggeringly stupid.
Anyway, I don't know why I staggered all the way to the end even though I never really liked this series except in short spurts, but it was always a quick read at least. You couldn't pay me to start watching the tv show, though. show less
What I really want is for The Walking Dead to come to an end, but that's the one thing it can never do. The forty-eighth issues collected here are relentless, sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a bad way. Characters are killed off, maimed, tortured, &c. in a way that's rare in serial fiction-- but you soon learn not to get to close to any of the characters as a result. (Except for poor, perpetually subjugated and neglected Carol. She was my favorite.) Luckily(?), there's an eternal flood show more of new characters to come in as old ones depart, so that there's always someone that Rick Grimes can feel bad about when they're killed.
But this means it will all never end. What I want is for the characters to successfully build a new civilization and fly off into the sunset, utopia in their wake. But The Walking Dead is very specifically design to stop that from happening: it's about the impossibility of human kindness in these circumstances. Or perhaps, all circumstances. No matter what you do, someone else will come along and screw it up. For the series to end, positively or negatively, would be dishonest, so it must continue to lurch forward from contrived plot to contrived plot, aimless like the zombies that litter its pages. And like the main characters often do, I feel like I should end it all because nothing worthwhile is ever going to happen... yet I'll continue to slog through until the bitter end, because knowing is better than not knowing, even when there's nothing good to know. show less
But this means it will all never end. What I want is for the characters to successfully build a new civilization and fly off into the sunset, utopia in their wake. But The Walking Dead is very specifically design to stop that from happening: it's about the impossibility of human kindness in these circumstances. Or perhaps, all circumstances. No matter what you do, someone else will come along and screw it up. For the series to end, positively or negatively, would be dishonest, so it must continue to lurch forward from contrived plot to contrived plot, aimless like the zombies that litter its pages. And like the main characters often do, I feel like I should end it all because nothing worthwhile is ever going to happen... yet I'll continue to slog through until the bitter end, because knowing is better than not knowing, even when there's nothing good to know. show less
The Good: The previous volume was slow and full of setup that we could only hope would pay off. Something to Fear is everything a reader could have dreamed of and more. Absolutely mind blowing. Huge, unexpected twists that change EVERYTHING. The introduction of Negan will make the groups interactions with the Governor seem like a minor altercation. This is exactly what the series needed. Action, emotion, and a bad guy that will chill you to the bone. Absolutely renews my love of the show more series.
The Bad: Not a thing. show less
The Bad: Not a thing. show less
What could have easily ended up as a novel twist has instead turned into an interesting question of morality. Do you interfere with others because you believe their way of life is wrong, or do you simply let them be to hold the peace? At what point are you simply protecting someone because you care about them, and putting others at risk? What if people only suspect you're doing so, when indeed people they care about are in the wrong... but they refuse to see it?
You can't please everyone, show more but can you hold the peace?
This volume introduced us formally to the Whisperers, a group who believes the proper way to live in this post-apocalyptic world is to accept that the old way of life is dead. You can't rebuild, you can't make it better, so you join with the dead. They wear the skins of zombies to move among them, and live off the land, moving with the herds. Is it right? Is it wrong? Is living with the dead you will soon become a step too far?
Questions, questions, questions. And then young Carl Grimes gets involved. Carl's character development is some of the best in the series, and this volume truly shows his mixed upbringing with Rick and Negan, to a certain extent, coming to its full fruition. His development just fascinates me because it's so believable. He didn't have the luxury of childhood, and he's had to go through so much to stay alive. Here, as it previously has, these hardships come to haunt him...
What will happen next? show less
You can't please everyone, show more but can you hold the peace?
This volume introduced us formally to the Whisperers, a group who believes the proper way to live in this post-apocalyptic world is to accept that the old way of life is dead. You can't rebuild, you can't make it better, so you join with the dead. They wear the skins of zombies to move among them, and live off the land, moving with the herds. Is it right? Is it wrong? Is living with the dead you will soon become a step too far?
Questions, questions, questions. And then young Carl Grimes gets involved. Carl's character development is some of the best in the series, and this volume truly shows his mixed upbringing with Rick and Negan, to a certain extent, coming to its full fruition. His development just fascinates me because it's so believable. He didn't have the luxury of childhood, and he's had to go through so much to stay alive. Here, as it previously has, these hardships come to haunt him...
What will happen next? show less
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