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27: 315: 368:, and drawn by an inexperienced young artist called Mike McMahon. Mills, who was editor at the time, chose McMahon because he could do a passable imitation of Ezquerra's style, but the more he drew the more his own style emerged. When Wagner returned to his creation, McMahon became the character's most regular artist. Other artists, such as 438:
story "Block Mania", which he was slated to draw all nine episodes of, his drawings were tight and precise with well-defined areas of black and white. They were taking an increasingly long time to draw, especially with all the crowd scenes the scripts called for, and McMahon bowed out after only two
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during this time). When he did return in 1983, it was with a radically different style, all sinuous figures, tangled pen lines, and incompletely filled in areas of black. Freed from sterile science fiction environments, he went to town on texture and tone, lashed together technology and organic
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McMahon's early work was characterised by a quick, spontaneous approach that verged on the messy. His figures were lean and loose, his pen lines thrown down with verve and energy, and hatching was done with a fully charged brush. He drew the bulk of the first long-form
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Following "The Judge Child" his art took a high contrast black and white direction, and in colour stories in annuals, explored patterns of flat colour. In 1981, when he began the
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and others, and under O'Neill's influence his work became tighter and his figures chunkier. He returned to Dredd the following year for the next long story, "
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back-up story. During this time, he also produced two 6 page strips for the Marvel UK/Panini fully originated fortnightly comic
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Since then he has worked in computer game design and his work in comics has been sporadic. A couple of
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in 1984, McMahon re-emerged in 1991, after a long illness that prevented him from drawing, with
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gave McMahon the spookier, more atmospheric episodes to draw.
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imprint, and another radical change in drawing style.
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In 1979 McMahon took some time off from Dredd to draw
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prog 2, (1977) shows his early style, influenced by
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