Famously he introduced creator credits early on in the Prog, a huge leap for comic creator recognition and creator rights in the UK. Heavily influenced by British humour comic great Ken Reid, and Mad magazine, it was Kev’ who was responsible for the adverts for “Flesh” and humour in the editorial illustrations in the early Progs of 2000AD. It was here that he really started to spread his wings under the tutelage of art editor Jan Shepheard, later replacing her as art editor. He found a dream job as assistant art editor on 2000AD. Kevin started as a junior on the IPC humour titles, describing himself as a “bodger”, whiting out artists names, cleaning up pages etc. His outlandish designs reveal a vivid and extraordinary imagination. His art is jagged, surreal, anarchic and euphorically visceral with an anarchic edge. His pages can be disturbing and contain boundless energy, marrying extreme violence with slapstick humour, his characters are horrifying and hilarious. His characters are comic, grotesque, macabre, horrifying and hilarious all at once. There’s never been an artist like Kevin O’Neill.
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