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Ian Edginton is a British comic book writer. He is one of the few British comic talents to follow the reverse trajectory to the one usually taken - he started with American comics and eventually ended up working for 2000 AD. Edginton sees part of the key to his success coming from good relationships with artists, especially D'Israeli and Steve Yeowell as well as Steve Pugh and Mike Collins. He is best known for his steampunk/alternative history work (often with the artist D'Israeli). He is the co-creator of Scarlet Traces, a sequel to H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (which they also adapted into comic form), and Leviathan. He is the writer of The Red Seas, with art by Steve Yeowell, along with some one-off serials such as American Gothic (2005). His stories often have a torturous gestation. Scarlet Traces was an idea he had when first reading The War of the Worlds, its first few instalments appeared on Cool Beans website, before being serialised in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Also The Red Seas was initially going to be drawn by Phil Winslade and be the final release by Epic but Winslade was still tied up with Goddess and when ideas for replacement artists were rejected Epic was finally wound up - the series only re-emerging when Edginton was pitching ideas to Matt Smith at the start of his 2000 AD career. He is currently working on a dinosaurs and cowboys story called Sixgun Logic. He has created a couple of new serries with D'Israeli, Stickleback, a tale of a strange villain in an alternative Victorian London, and Gothic, which he describes as "Mary Shelley's Doc Savage". With Simon Davis he is working on a survival horror series, Stone Island, and he is also producing a comic version of the online game with Steve Pugh.
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