Devlin Waugh
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| Character information | |||
| First appearance | Judge Dredd Megazine (vol. 2) #1 (1992) (1992) | ||
| Created by |
John Smith Sean Phillips |
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| In-story information | |||
| Team affiliations | Judge Dredd, Eddie Whyteman, Murray Koenig, Vatican City, Jerry Biedekker | ||
| Notable aliases | Dirk Devlin | ||
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| Publication information | |||
| Publisher | Fleetway Publications | ||
| Schedule | Weekly | ||
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| Formats | Original material for the series has been published as a strip in the comics anthology(s) 2000 AD and Judge Dredd Megazine. | ||
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| Publication date | May 1992 – present | ||
| Main character(s) | Devlin Waugh | ||
| Creative team | |||
| Writer(s) | John Smith | ||
| Artist(s) |
Sean Phillips Steve Yeowell Michael Gaydos Colin MacNeil Peter Doherty |
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| Letterer(s) |
Elle de Ville Steve Potter Annie Parkhouse |
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| Colourist(s) | D'Israeli | ||
| Creator(s) |
John Smith Sean Phillips |
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| Editor(s) |
David Bishop Alan Barnes Andy Diggle |
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| Reprints | |||
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| Swimming in Blood | ISBN | ||
| Red Tide | ISBN | ||
Devlin Waugh (a play on Evelyn Waugh) is a fictional character who has appeared regularly in British comic anthologies 2000 AD and Judge Dredd Megazine. The character, a homosexual vampire, was originally created by the writer-artist team John Smith and Sean Phillips.
Waugh is part of the world of Judge Dredd, originally created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra, and set 122 years ahead of our own time.
2000 AD had mainly featured monosyllabic tough guys such as Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper: people driven by either a sense of duty, or honour, or revenge. Waugh, by contrast, was a camp homosexual exorcist priest, employed by the future Vatican City, with medals in flower-arranging and Olympic high-diving, a bodybuilder's physique and a cutting line in humour; his main motivation was simply to do "Anything to offset the dreadful of it all!" Smith describes Waugh as a hedonist, "a languorous upper-class misfit, a fop, an ex-public schoolboy with a neat line in sarcasm. A lounge lizard. Imagine Noël Coward as played by Arnold Schwarzenegger". Phillips visualised him missing a tooth like Terry-Thomas.
The first name proposed for the character was “Dirk Devlin”. The strip itself was to be called “Sin Eater” until editor David Bishop decided that the sound of this was too close to the name of pop star Sinitta.
The first series was painted by Philips. Other artists to have depicted Waugh include Siku, Steve Yeowell and Colin MacNeil.
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