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Strange Quark @strangequark@dice.camp · last month

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It has only recently dawned on me that artist Mark Harrison who illustrates space opera story "The Out" in #2000AD is the same Mark Harrison who wrote and drew "The Travellers" in #WhiteDwarf forty years ago.

"Syrena, when you've seen one A788899A planet, you've seen them all." Classic!

Mark also illustrated #ThrudTheBarbarian for White Dwarf. (1/2)

#Traveller #TravellerRPG #Thrud

Screenshot of a website with art by Mark Harrison, https://www.2000ad.org/markus/travellers/

The picture shows the crew of the Osprey crouched around an egg resembling the one in Alien, with the caption, "In space, no-one can hear you laugh". — Screenshot of a website with art by Mark Harrison, https://www.2000ad.org/markus/travellers/ The picture shows the crew of the Osprey crouched around an egg resembling the one in Alien, with the caption, "In space, no-one can hear you laugh".

A page of artwork by Mark Harrison. "The Travellers", Chapter 2: Starport, published in White Dwarf 53, May 1984. Free Trader Osprey has landed in Regina Starport. The crew rent an Air/Raft to see the sights.

A page of artwork by Mark Harrison. "The Out", Book 4, Part 15, published in 2000AD prog 2416, 22 January 2025. Protagonist Cyd Finlea approaches Gore-Metal-Pain Cartel Chieftain Redbladder.

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Strange Quark @strangequark@dice.camp · last month

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(2/2) Mark started producing work for 2000AD thirty years ago, in 1994. His Wikipedia page doesn't mention his earlier work for White Dwarf. The only reference is an inconspicuous link at the bottom to an old-school web page from twenty years ago, in which he reprises the crew of the Osprey in colour.

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Strange Quark @strangequark@dice.camp · last month

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The complete run of The Travellers, digitally rehashed in colour:

https://www.2000ad.org/markus/travellers/image.php

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Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 @nyrath@spacey.space · last month

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@strangequark

I adore The Travellers! It is like a sarcastic Traveler adventure illustrated by Mort Drucker!

Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 @nyrath@spacey.space · last month

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I remember how the British Traveler starship blueprints marked computer consoles with star icons...

https://www.2000ad.org/markus/travellers/image.php?page=14

Strange Quark @strangequark@dice.camp · last month

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Mark also used to have a website for Thrud the Barbarian. It's long disappeared from the Internet but is preserved in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20081025013642/http://www.thrudthebarbarian.com/

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