RIP Ron Smith (1924-2019)






Sad way to start the new year: classic British comic book artist Ron Smith has just passed away. A Spitfire pilot during WWII, he worked for DC Thomson before moving to 2000AD and drawing some of my absolute favorite Judge Dredd stories.
I admit he was pretty much the last of the classic era Dredd artists that I “got”, that I learned to appreciate. But he was an absolute wizard at getting intricately detailed pages out at record times, his action was dazzling and thrilling, and his gloriously hammy expressions were always a source of pure bliss. He’ll be greatly missed.








