Carlos Ezquerra, the creator of Judge Dredd, has passed away age 70 after a battle with lung cancer.
We are profoundly sad to confirm that the legendary artist Carlos Ezquerra has passed away. It is difficult for us to put this into words, but we have lost someone who was the heart and soul of 2000 AD, shared 2000AD, a weekly British science fiction-orientated comic magazine which was the first comic to publish the Judge Dredd stories.
Modest and unassuming, Carlos was nonetheless a legend whose contribution to the global comic book industry cannot be understated, the website continued.
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His distinctive style – characterised by breathtakingly dynamic, high-energy storytelling and the distinctive ridged thick inking that outlined so many key moments – was instantly recognisable.
The website revealed that Ezquerra was diagnosed with cancer in 2010 but it returned in 2018, and that it was believed he was recovering well.
His sudden death is a profound loss not just to 2000 AD but to the comic book medium, they added.
Ezquerra lived in Andorra, Spain despite working predominately for the UK-based magazine.
He co-created Dredd along with writer John Wagner, and drew many of the biggest stories in the strips history including The Apocalypse War, Necropolis and Origins.
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Dredd was turned into two films – a 1995 film starring Sylvester Stallone and 2012s Dredd, with Karl Urban.
Ezquerra also drew strips for characters such as Major Eazy and El Mestizo, and he co-created Strontium Dog and Starlord.
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