Brendan McCarthy

[4][5] His first paid commercial work was a one-page strip Electrick Hoax in the British weekly music paper Sounds with another art-school escapee, writer Peter Milligan, in 1978.

McCarthy held a solo exhibition of paintings, drawings and collages at the Car Breaker Gallery[6] in London, a squat in Ladbroke Grove's Republic of Frestonia.

[7] McCarthy started working for 2000 AD, including runs on Judge Dredd, as well as creating Sooner or Later and post-apocalyptic surfing story Freakwave with Peter Milligan.

In 1983 McCarthy collaborated with Milligan and Brett Ewins on punk indie series Strange Days, published by Eclipse Comics.

For Revolver, McCarthy drew Rogan Gosh (later compiled into a single edition by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics).

[10] His comic had new takes on characters such as The Flash, Batman, and Johnny Sorrow and he considers the single issue to be one of his best works.

McCarthy spent much of the remainder of the 1990s working in film and television, most notably as the production designer of the animated science fiction TV series ReBoot and as the character creator for War Planets.

In 1997 he was then asked to co-write and design Mad Max: Fury Road with director George Miller after meeting in Hollywood.