With over 70 years work it's tricky to list everything, but a few highlights are below.
During the 1950s Ian turned his hand to illustrating anything and everything. His work appeared in Hotspur, Rover, Adventure, Sun, Buck Jones and many other comics. In fact, it may be easier to list the comics Ian did not work for rather than the ones he did.
In the 1960s the Picture Library became a popular format and Ian worked on Air Ace, Bunty, Battle and War Picture Libraries. That's not to neglect the work he did for many of the weeklies such as Adventure, Hotspur and Bunty.
From the 1970s onward, Ian began to specialise in science fiction comics, regularly producing work for IPC's 2000AD and Star Lord. He also worked for Battle Picture Weekly, Buddy, Blake's 7, Eagle (Dan Dare), M.A.S.K., Victor Summer Special, Wildcat and D. C. Thomson's pocket books (including Commando).
Comics work is too numerous to easily list comprehensively here but interior sequential work includes:
- Air Ace Picture Library (Fleetway) https://iankennedyart.blogspot.com/2020/06/air-ace-picture-library.html
- Tybalt http://cloud-109.blogspot.com/2010/09/lost-in-translation-ian-kennedys-tybalt.html
- Turbo Jones (in Wildcat comic) https://downthetubes.net/attention-newcastle-turbo-jones-signing-by-ian-kennedy-and-barrie-tomlinson-announced/
- Jeff Craig Detective (Buster)
- Tiger McTaggart (Wizard)
- Typhoon Tennyson (Wizard)
- M.A.C.H. 1: "Vulcan" (with Robert Flynn, in 2000 AD #2, 1977)
- Tharg's Future Shocks: "The Collector" (with Kelvin Gosnell, in 2000 AD #210, 1981)
- Judge Dredd: "99 Red" (with John Wagner/Alan Grant, in 2000 AD #423, 1985)
- Invasion:
- "Wembley" (with Gerry Finley-Day, in 2000 AD #6, 1977)
- "Jump Jet" (with Chris Lowder, in 2000 AD #36, 1977)
- Ro-Busters:
- "Midpoint" (with Chris Lowder as Bill Henry, in Starlord #5-6, 1978)
- "Farnborough Droid Show" (with Pat Mills as V. Gross, in Starlord #13-14, 1978)
- Time Quake (with Chris Lowder, in Starlord #1-13, 1978)
- Dan Dare:
- Untitled (in Eagle Annual 1979, 1978)
- "Return of the Mekon" (with B. J. Tomlinson, John Wagner and Pat Mills, in Eagle #19-26, 1982)
- "The Dare Report" (with Pat Mills, in Eagle #34-38, 1982)
- "Fireflight" (with Pat Mills, in Eagle #39-83, 1982)
- More details of Ian's work on Dan Dare here https://thevintagetoyadvertiser.org/tag/ian-kennedy-dan-dare-art/
Covers
- 2000 AD #96, 446
- Starlord #20
- Tornado #5-6, 10, 13, 16 and 18
- Eagle #42, 47, 50-83
Commando / DC Thomson
Ian Kennedy’s first cover for Commando was No. 453 ‘SEEK AND STRIKE’ January 1970. Since then, Ian has created over 1300 original covers (including annuals) - continuing on to this day! List of covers here
http://www.britishcomics.20m.com/kennedy2.htmCommando covers:
DCT Cover Galleries:
Celebrating 70 years of Ian Kennedy’s artwork for DC Thomson. Rarely seen original pages and sketches from Kennedy’s illustrious career at DC Thomson are represented here in a way they’ve never been seen before. A celebration of seventy years of true comics genius from the pages of publications as diverse as The Topper to Warlord, Lucky Charm to Starblazer, set out chronologically from 1950s to the present day.
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