Han er Loven! Rebellion is delighted to announce a deal with publisher E-voke to reprint collections from 2000 AD and Rebellion’s vast archive of comics in Danish.
The first volume published under this new arrangement will be Essential Judge Dredd: The Apocalypse War, the epic ‘Judge Dredd’ storyline from 2000 AD from 1981-2.
It will be the first time that Dredd has been published in Danish since the 1980s, when he appeared as “Dommeren” for thirteen issues published by Interpresse in 1984-5.
Written by John Wagner and Alan Grant, with art by ‘Judge Dredd’ co-creator Carlos Ezquerra, Brian Bolland, Mick McMahon, Ron Smith and Steve Dillon, ‘The Apocalypse War’ is considered one of the all-time greatest ‘Judge Dredd’ stories and this collection presents this classic story with bold new colouring for a modern audience.
E-voke will also reprint the Hugo Pratt War Picture Library from Rebellion’s The Treasury of British Comics imprint. The Italian artist/writer behind Corto Maltese, Pratt is one of the most beloved and well-known creative forces in European comics and E-voke jumped at the opportunity to translate and publish Rebellion’s collections of his War Picture Library stories from the 1960s.
The series reprinting these war-themed stories originally published by IPC will begin with Night of the Devil, and continue with Battler Britton and The Crimson Sea, the latter split into two volumes.
All of E-voke’s new editions will be published in hardback volume format.
Launched in 2018 and based in Ringsted, Denmark, E-voke publishes a wide variety of comics in Danish, representing a broad catalogue of titles and genres, such as The Phantom, Asterix, Jean-Michel Charlier & Mœbius’s Blueberry, Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese, and many more.
A spokesman for E-voke said: “It has been a pleasure doing business with 2000 AD and Rebellion – which now makes it possible for us to begin publishing such fine classic comics like ‘Judge Dredd’ and the fantastic artist Hugo Pratt and his collection of war stories.
“We have been met with a great assistance and enthusiasm from Rebellion’s rights manager Sam Birkett – and now we can publish these new Danish editions of the comics for the Danish readers and fans. We know they are so excited to finally read these stories here in Denmark!”
Sam Birkett, Rebellion’s Rights Manager, said: “Lea and Lars from E-Voke’s unbridled passion for comics was evident within the first few minutes of meeting them earlier this year at the 52nd Festival de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême. Their catalogue speaks for itself, and I am delighted that they will be the first publisher to bring the “Dommeren” to the Danes in nearly forty years, along with the first Danish publication of some excellent war stories from maestro Hugo Pratt. Tusind tak!”
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