BEYOND WATCHMEN & JUDGE DREDD

released OUT NOW! 276 pages | paperback Author John Higgins Publisher liverpool University press

Subtitled The Art Of John Higgins, this is a celebration of the work of the man who coloured Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen – and loads more.

Appropriately, Gibbons shows up to deliver a gushing foreword about his friend and collaborator.

Higgins delivers a lengthy commentary on his career, covering everything from how he started to his opinions on the industry.

The prose is slightly unpolished, but that actually lends authenticity to Higgins’s recollections of his experiences.

It’s the comic book art and numerous book and magazine covers that really stand out – they’re beautifully presented.

For budding artists, there’s plenty of technical information about the craft at the back.