Kevin O’Neill Dead: co-creator of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen passes away at 95
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Kevin O’Neill, born in the year 1953, is most popular for the 1999 TV series called League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which he co-made with Alan Moore. They worked together until 2019 on League and its branch-offs. As indicated by a report from Gosh Comics, Kevin O’Neill spent last week after an extended sickness at 69 years old. Kevin O’Neill, who started his profession in comics as a teenager and later worked as both an artist and an editor on the early issues of the stunningly well-known anthology series 2000AD, was a critical impact on English comics for quite a long time. He developed friendships all throughout his career and co-created characters like Marshal Law and Nemesis the Warlock.
Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Annual #2, which Kevin O’Neill adapted from a script by Alan Moore, was one of his first-ever American works. Because of the standards it offered, which in this way appeared as Geoff Johns’ Blackest Night storyline, that story has since become a pivotal DC issue. Kevin O’Neill’s contribution to Alan Moore’s Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic and Pat Serial Killer was a portion of his last published works. For a really long time, Kevin O’Neill kept collaborating with both Alan Moore and the co-creator of Marshal law, Pat Mills.
Everyone at 2000 AD is devastated to learn of the death of artist Kevin O’Neill.
Our tribute to such an inimitable talent: https://t.co/zlE2r08XqDpic.twitter.com/Zni7FgSfcC— 2000 AD Comics (@2000AD) November 7, 2022Advertisement
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Artist Kevin O’Neill Died At The Age Of 69
Kevin O’Neill, the British comic artist who co-created The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with Alan Moore, among other persuasive works, has passed away, EW has confirmed the news, Kevin was 69 years old. Born On 22nd August 1953 in southeast London to a common family, Kevin O’Neill’s imaginative dreams were first stirred by anthology comics like The Beano and American imports of Mad Magazine. In an interview for True Brit, a history of British comics, Kevin O’Neill told writer George Khoury that Those ink lines and squiggles addressed to me a brief look at universes more real and strong and attractive than the one I lived in. Kevin O’Neill began working in the comics industry at the age of 16, he first started as an office assistant for a children’s humour comic called Buster. Ultimately, he had enough of children’s comics and went to work on the new sci-fi anthology in 2000 AD.
Kev in O'Neill would be an all-time great even if the only thing he did was be rejected by the Comics Code Authority because they found his style objectionable beyond the point of correction pic.twitter.com/tifUFH9s8w
— Layne (@layne) November 7, 2022Advertisement
Kevin O’Neill filled both creative and editorial roles in the early long periods of 2000 AD, which became well-known to readers. Its most well-known strips incorporate Judge Dredd and Nemesis the Warlock, which Kevin O’Neill made with writer Pat Mills. Never forget, Kevin O’Neill’s entire style was viewed as offensive by the Comics Code Authority. That is a real degree of heroism, Writer Kieron Gillen posted after news broke of Kevin O’Neill’s demise. All his Nemesis and Torquemada work live in my mind, building gothic palaces. Kevin O’Neill’s generally renowned comic showed up in 1999 when he and Moore first created The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Despite the fact that it began as a Justice League-like team-up of Victorian pulp heroes like Captain Nemo and the Invisible Man, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen developed into an incredible adventure that ran for a really long time and integrated pretty much every possible fictional character into its canon.
Kevin O’Neill was an absolute masterclass story teller and comic composer. His art was beautifully horrific and horrifically beautiful. Probably not a day goes by that I don’t think of the Invisible Man putting on his costume. How in KO’s hands the simple becomes enthralling. RIP pic.twitter.com/vHPXxPqDsc
— Tom King (@TomKingTK) November 7, 2022
RIP Kevin O'Neill. One of the most unique cartoonists to ever grace the field. Nemesis the Warlock was Hieronymous Bosch for kids, and it changed my life. A true genius has passed, and I'm genuinely gutted. pic.twitter.com/QA7mTDS3nj
— Scarred for Life (@ScarredForLife2) November 7, 2022
RIP Kevin O'Neill. Truly one of a kind. pic.twitter.com/ggBT15z6vy
— Goran Gligović (@GoranGligovic) November 7, 2022
