About this video

Liverpool-born artist John Higgins (Hon LittD 2018) found global success as a comic book artist and writer for 2000AD, DC and Marvel. In this talk he will be discussing his book, Beyond Watchmen & Judge Dredd - the Art of John Higgins, as well as his forthcoming comic series, which will appear in the magazine Dreadnoughts, and his graphic novel America, both of which are set in a dystopian fascist future on the lines of Judge Dredd’s Megacity 1, exploring ideas around the breakdown of democracy.