Ian Edginton is known for his
steampunk/
alternate history work (often with the artist
D'Israeli) and is the co-creator of
Scarlet Traces, a sequel to ''
H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, which they later went on to adapt in turn, and The Great Game, a sequel to Scarlet Traces
. For 2000 AD
he has written Leviathan, Stickleback and, with art by Steve Yeowell, The Red Seas as well as one-off serials such as American Gothic'' (2005).
Scarlet Traces was an idea he had when first reading
The War of the Worlds, its first few instalments appeared on Cool Beans website, before being serialised in the
Judge Dredd Megazine. Also,
The Red Seas was initially going to be drawn by
Phil Winslade and be the final release by
Epic, but Winslade was still tied up with
Goddess, and when ideas for replacement artists were rejected, Epic was finally wound up. The series re-emerged when Edginton pitched ideas to
Matt Smith at the start of his
2000 AD career. With D'Israeli he has created a number of new series including
Stickleback, a tale of a strange villain in an alternate Victorian London, and
Gothic, which he describes as "Mary Shelley's Doc Savage". With Simon Davis he worked on a survival horror series,
Stone Island, and he has also produced a comic version of the computer game
Hellgate: London with
Steve Pugh. With
Dan Abnett he is writing comics based on
Warhammer 40,000 (
Damnation Crusade and
Blood and Thunder) and
Warhammer (
Forge of War) for
Boom! Studios. The most recent is a Warhammer Fantasy series called
Condemned by Fire. He is currently working on a dinosaurs and cowboys story called
Sixgun Logic. As part of
Top Cow's
Pilot Season he has written an
Angelus one-shot. he also contributed to
Days Missing at
Archaia Studios Press. Following the "
World's End" storyline, Edginton took over the writing of
Stormwatch: Post Human Division from issue #13 and also at Wildstorm he created
Victorian Undead a series which mixes Sherlock Holmes with zombies. He has also written
Aladdin: Legacy of the Lost at
Radical Comics. ==Bibliography==