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Andy Diggle

Making Shit Up For Cash Since 1971

About Me

I write comics, movies and video-games. HELLBLAZER , BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL and Guy Ritchie's GAMEKEEPER are in comic stores now, and GREEN ARROW: YEAR ONE is due out this Summer.My previous projects have included THE LOSERS (currently being developed as a feature film by Warner Brothers), ADAM STRANGE , SILENT DRAGON and SWAMP THING . blog | website | us store | uk store

My Interests

Movies, comics, crazy people

I'd like to meet:

Anyone smart, interesting and funny - especially professional artists who'd like to work with me.... The operative word there being professional.

Music:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys, PJ Harvey, Death In Vegas, Mika Bomb, BRMC

Movies:

Reservoir Dogs, Fight Club, Jaws, Alien, The Usual Suspects, The Terminator, Once Upon A Time In The West, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Memento, The Prestige, Heat, Yojimbo, Miller's Crossing, The Matrix, Out Of Sight, Infernal Affairs, Seven, Three Kings, Oldboy, Unforgiven, The Wild Bunch, Max Max 2: The Road Warrior, Children of Men, The Grifters, Pan's Labyrinth

Television:

The Shield, The Wire, Firefly, The West Wing, Buffy, Spaced, Batttlestar Galactica, The Job, The Sopranos, Deadwood, Rescue Me, The Daily Show, Lost, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Edge Of Darkness, Oz, Weeds

Books:

Neal Stephenson, Iain Banks, Stephen Hunter, Cormac McCarthy, Jim Thompson, Garth Ennis, Brian K. Vaughan, Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, John Wagner

Heroes:

Bill Hicks , Richard Dawkins

My Blog

HELLBLAZER is WIZARD’s Book of the Month

Issue 192 of WIZARD magazine names HELLBLAZER as its new Book of the Month. Nice to see a 20-year old Vertigo book get a little love in between all the spandex crossover stuff. Thanks guys!...
Posted by Andy Diggle on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:21:00 PST

HELLBLAZER 234 Sneak Peek

Click here for a six-page sneak preview of HELLBLAZER 234, on sale Wednesday.It's the first chapter of a chav-tastic four-issue story entitled JOYRIDE, written by myself, with interiors by Leonardo M...
Posted by Andy Diggle on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:31:00 PST

Tim Story to direct THE LOSERS

It's official. From today's Variety:Tim Story to direct 'Losers'Vanderbilt adapting DC-Vertigo comicbookBy PAMELA MCCLINTOCK, MICHAEL FLEMINGLeaving behind the world of superheroes, Tim Story is set t...
Posted by Andy Diggle on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:37:00 PST

The Great GREEN ARROW: YEAR ONE Ashcan Blag!

Those lovely folks at DC Comics were kind enough to hand out exclusive GREEN ARROW: YEAR ONE ashcan editions by myself and Jock at the Bristol Comic Expo this weekend. Of course, not everyone was able...
Posted by Andy Diggle on Fri, 18 May 2007 01:50:00 PST

GREEN ARROW: YEAR ONE Sneak Peek!

Check out my new ComicSpace Gallery for a sneak preview of the first five pages of GREEN ARROW: YEAR ONE by myself and Jock, on sale 11th July!...
Posted by Andy Diggle on Thu, 03 May 2007 04:44:00 PST

GREEN ARROW: YEAR ONE Solicitation

DC Comics have released the solicitation text and cover image for GREEN ARROW: YEAR ONE, which will be shipping every two weeks from 11th July:GREEN ARROW: YEAR ONE #1 & 2Written by Andy DiggleArt...
Posted by Andy Diggle on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:54:00 PST

Hellblazer / Green Arrow Interviews

Busy week! Last week my first issue of HELLBLAZER went on sale, and I've just done an interview with Comic Book Resources to discuss my take on Constantine, plus a second interview to discuss Green Ar...
Posted by Andy Diggle on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:36:00 PST

New York Comic Con

Jock and I hit the Big Apple tomorrow night. Judging by the plans our American friends have already laid out for us, it's starting to look like 72 hours of continuous social drinking interspersed with...
Posted by Andy Diggle on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:42:00 PST

HELLBLAZER Sneak Peek

Here's a 6-page sneak preview of my first HELLBLAZER issue. Scroll down past the spandex bollocks and click the pics to embiggenize 'em....
Posted by Andy Diggle on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:45:00 PST

Eagle Awards

The UK's Eagle Awards nomination form is online, so get voting. No, not for me - I'm not sure I even had anything new in print in 2006. But I'm nominating the late, great TOM FRAME for the Roll of Hon...
Posted by Andy Diggle on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:03:00 PST