John Higgins - with Sally Hurst - has designed logos and character illustrations for a film proposal called DEMENTAMANIA by Anis Shlewet (the name was changed after the designs were completed). It is a twisted and horrific modern-day parable about a worker drone who listens to that dark voice inside...

The long-awaited trailer for Watchmen is now on-line!

Also, the movie's website has been given a huge update, complete with new pics!

On Saturday July 5th John will be in Methven's Bookshop, Worthing, West Sussex.

John will be signing copies of Watchmen, The Hills Have Eyes, Razorjack and one of the multitude of titles he has done in his career. A great opportunity to find hard-to-come-by back issues of his work, Worthing is also hosting the 2008 International Birdman Festival that weekend: a fun family day at the sea - and comics - check it out!

Methven's Bookshop
22-26, South St, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 3AA
11.00 - 15.00, Saturday 5th of July 2008

Newsarama.com has just posted an interview with John about his upcoming work on DC's Jonah Hex (written by John's Hills Have Eyes collaborators Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti).

John also managed to find time to give me advance notice on some of his upcoming work - more details to follow when the time is right!

The visit to Inverness produced one of those strange, almost unearthly coincidences.... I arrived in Inverness early on Friday afternoon and decided to explore the city. The first shop I entered was a charity shop (such a place is always a good port-of-call for the seasoned book-hunter), where I spotted a Mission Galactica Annual from around 1980.

I was already the proud owner of the Battlestar Galactica Annual that's packed with comic strips drawn by John, but I'd never seen the Mission Galactica Annual before - I didn't even know it existed - so I picked it up "just in case"... Within seconds I was gibbering like an idiot: Like its predecessor, the MG annual is full of illustrations by a certain Mister John B. Higgins!

The relevant data has, of course, now been added to the ever-growing Bibliography. We're at a staggering 378 different entries now, but I'm sure that there are even more great discoveries waiting in the wings!

A note from the webmaster: The Bibliography has just undergone a complete overhaul. Among other features, we've now added something that was sorely missing from the previous version: a Search function!

As always, the bibliography is an on-going project. John's produced an incredible amount of work over the past thirty-two years and as you can imagine there are things even he's forgotten about; if you can help to fill in any of the missing details please get in touch!

Technical note: some of the beta-testers using the Safari web-browser have reported problems with the 'Back' button when using the bibliography. Unfortunately this is an inherent problem with Safari and not the bibliography itself. We're currently trying to find a solution to the problem; as soon as we do, we'll let you know.

Fox Atomic's website has an excellent 13-minute "making of" video featuring interviews with writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, colourist Dennis Calero and, of course, our very own John Higgins...

Update 2007 11 16: For those who are having trouble accessing Fox Atomic's website, the video is also available on MySpaceTV.

We've just added a useful new function to the Bibliography: a list of the other creators with whom John has worked. Selecting a name from the list will display all of projects on which they've collaborated.

Visit the Studio Shop for your chance to own the original artwork for the acclaimed comic-book prequel to the hit movie!

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John is currently working on a Jonah Hex one-off for DC comics, written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, with whom John also worked on the recent The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning graphic novel. Jon writes: "Jimmy and Justin are a pleasure to work with. The script has the same confident visual breakdown as The Hills, on which I really enjoy working, and dialogue that echoes the 'otherwordly-ness' of the HBO award-winning Deadwood series. It gives this classic DC character a maturity that I find exciting and adds a depth to Hex's twisted version of 'Western Justice'." No publication date confirmed yet, but more news when we have it.

On the subject of The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning: John talks about the book on the UKSF Book News website.

Dan Dare

John has just painted a cover for issue 2 of Virgin Comics' up-coming Dan Dare comic book series, written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Gary Erskine with regular covers by Garry Leach. "Garth has written a mature Dare being asked once again to save the Earth. Each issue will have an alternative cover. Garth told me, 'Do the painting you've always wanted to do of Dare.' This took me back to my collection of original Eagles to a classic Frank Hampson story called Rogue Planet, from which I plundered the wonderful Hampson designs." Publication date to be confirmed.

John will be attending the 5th Belgrade International Comics Showroom convention from the 25th to 30th of September 2007. Previous guests have included Brian Bolland, Jean-Marc Thevenet (ex-director of Angouleme International Comics Festival), Adrian Smith and Olivier Ledroit (both of whom have worked with Pat Mills for French publishers). This year, the guests will be Igor Kordej (Kordey) and John Higgins.

John hopes to meet many new friends and to discover the state of comics in this part of Europe that has been more or less closed to the rest of Europe for the last part of the Twentieth century.

For more information, see the convention's website.

The Studio Shop is currently off-line, pending some updates and additions! Please check back soon - we promise it'll be worth your while!

"A Delta-class assassin, John Blake is a governmental agent - a Greysuit - conditioned by his masters to have augmented speed and strength. But could a glitch in his programming make him remember who he was?
"Not a slave. Not a living weapon. Not government property. A human being..."

Over on the Features page you'll find links to an interview with John about his days as an illustrator for gamebooks, and an article about Watchmen that John wrote for an Italian tribute book.

If you're a fan of the cult horror movie The Hills Have Eyes, then check the Gallery to see some samples of John's artwork for the upcoming graphic novel, The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning, written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray.

We have a limited number of very rare Watchmen Portfolios, signed by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and John Higgins.

Also available are the three issues of John's Razorjack series, complete with concept drawings, comments and articles.

More items will be available soon, including original artwork! Keep watching...

Greysuit: starting in April 2007 in 2000 AD, Greysuit is a new strip written by Pat Mills and drawn by John Higgins. Interviewed on the always-informative 2000AD Review website, Mills says, "A Greysuit is the authentic name used to describe a British 'Man in Black'. Very moody and sinister." Later on the same site: "It was and is a joy to work on for John, making a complete change from aliens, mutants and superheroes which he still loves to work on, but a change is as good as a rest, so they say."

The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning: Inspired by the forthcoming sequel to the remake of the classic movie, this is a graphic novel written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray. John writes: "I am up to my eyeballs in The Hills Have Eyes graphic novel for Fox Atomic, I have thankfully always worked hard - as in 'a six-and-a-half relaxed days a week' week - but on this it is a serious seven days a week with no relaxation, no nights on the beer."

Meet Darren Dead: John is hoping to get back to the story of Darren Dead (the opening episode of which was printed in Judge Dredd Megazine #240 (January 2006). The series was due to be published in 2006 but writer Rob Williams was, according to 2000 AD Review, "distracted by becoming a father". Congratulations to Rob from all here at JBH Towers, and here's hoping you get a chance to put fingers to keyboard in the near future!

More information on these and other works coming soon... And for those who have been waiting: this site's Studio Shop will be up-and-running in a matter of days!