Peter Milligan

Peter Milligan
Nationality	Irish
Area(s)	Writer
Notable works	Bad Company Shade, the Changing Man Enigma X-Force Hellblazer
http://www.petermilligan.co.uk

Peter Milligan is an Irish writer, best known for his comic book, film and television work.

Biography

Early career

Milligan started his comic career with short stories for 2000 AD in the early 1980s. By 1986, Milligan had his first ongoing strip in 2000AD called Bad Company, with artists Brett Ewins and Brendan McCarthy. Bad Company was a science fiction war story in 2000AD, it was immensely popular and helped Milligan become better known.

Concurrently, Milligan, Ewins and McCarthy had been working on the anthology title, Strange Days for Eclipse Comics. Strange Days featured three strips, Paradax, Freakwave and Johnny Nemo. Milligan, McCarthy and Ewins produced three issues of this psychedelic comic, it was not a great seller but it picked up a small, loyal readership. The most conventional strip, Johnny Nemo, had its own series while the more quirky Paradax had a two issue series published by Vortex Comics in 1987.

By 1989 Milligan was swapping between more conventional strips such as Bad Company, while still writing his more surreal efforts in 2000AD, such as Hewligan's Haircut with artist Jamie Hewlett. Milligan with artist Jim McCarthy created the Steve Ditko-inspired Bix Barton. This was first run as a black and white strip for its first outing ("Barton's Beasts") the second strip was called "Carry On Barton" (originally "Carry On Snuffing"), the strip was very popular and was a precursor of Devlin Waugh and others.

In 1989 he had his first work published by DC Comics. Skreemer was a six issue mini series with art by Brett Ewins that was somewhat lost in the midst of the so-called "British Invasion" of American comics of the time. A dark post-apocalyptic gangster story, it did receive critical acclaim but did not sell well. Milligan however was soon to become a regular writer for DC while still working on his more personal comics in the UK in comics such as 2000AD, and its spin off titles Crisis and Revolver.

Skin

Skin (art by Brendan McCarthy) was the story of a young thalidomide skinhead in 1970s London, and his attempts to deal with his disability and the world in general. The strip was due to feature in Crisis in 1990 but the publishers, Fleetway were worried by the controversial subject matter, plus they were concerned with the explicit use of language in the story. The printers refused to print it, blaming the graphic language and controversial subject matter as a reason. The story remained in limbo until eventually being published as a graphic novel by Tundra with little, or no controversy. It remains one of Milligan's most powerful and acclaimed works.

The 1990s

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Cover of Shade, the Changing Man #4 by Brendan McCarthy.

Milligan had started to revamp Steve Ditko's character Shade, the Changing Man for DC Comics in 1990. This proved to be his largest break into American comics and came at the end of the first wave of "The British Invasion" of comics. Milligan updated and adapted many of Ditko's concepts, while adding his own ideas to embark upon one of the most bizarre titles published by DC. In 1993, it was one of the first wave of Vertigo titles with issue 33. It was a steady seller but it was cancelled with issue 70. A one-off story for Vertigo's tenth anniversary was published in 2003.

Milligan also succeeded Grant Morrison on Animal Man for a six issue run in 1991, and became the regular writer of Batman in Detective Comics in the same year. It was during one meeting of Batman writers that Milligan came up with the initial idea which led to the Knightfall storyline which was to cross over all the Batman family of titles. Milligan however had finished writing Detective Comics and was not involved with the crossover.

Milligan also created the highly acclaimed Enigma, with artist Duncan Fegredo for Vertigo in 1993. In this, Milligan introduced a gay superhero and dealt with his subject manner in his usual surreal way. Milligan quickly followed this up with The Extremist with artist Ted McKeever. Both titles dealt with taboo subjects for a mainstream publisher, but were applauded by their handling of these subjects.

Milligan spent the remainder of the decade writing one-off specials such as Face and The Eaters, or mini-series like Egypt and Tank Girl with its creator Jamie Hewlett providing art as well as acting as advisory editor to Paul Honeyford's Fighting Figurines. Milligan and Brendan McCarthy's psychedelic classic Rogan Gosh was reprinted in a collected edition by Vertigo in 1996, after being first serialised six years earlier in Revolver.

Milligan rounded out the decade by writing a four issue mini series featuring The Human Target. Proving to be Milligan's most conventional title for DC so far, it was also very popular and brought him to the attention of many who had been unaware of him and his works.

X-Force / X-Statix

In 2001 Marvel Comics was undergoing a revamp by its new editor-in-chief Joe Quesada and one of his aims was to revamp the X-Men family of titles. Milligan was given X-Force to write with issue 116, and right away he removed the Rob Liefeld style superheroics and replaced it with a more satirical tone. Milligan and artist Mike Allred also removed the traditional superhero names and replaced them with names which sounded more like product brand names. Characters such as the Orphan, the Anarchist, U-Go Girl, Phat, Vivisector, Venus Dee Milo, Dead Girl and Doop formed this new team. This was not well received by some fans of the title, and many wanted "their" X-Force back, a comment Milligan would later parody in the pages of the title. These criticisms aside, the title sold well and even received mainstream media coverage both in America and Europe.

Milligan's run was acclaimed for its different take on the super hero genre, however X-Force was cancelled with issue 129 so it could become X-Statix, with Allred still as artist. It was on X-Statix that Milligan would once again become controversial when a proposed plotline was to feature a resurrected Princess Diana as a superhero and X-Statix team member. News of this spread to the press, including the British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mail who strongly objected to the idea. Eventually the character of Diana was altered, as were the references to the Royal Family but not before the story had been reported around the world. This aside, X-Statix was cancelled with issue 26, though several trade paperbacks were released.

2000 onwards

Milligan's film work includes the screenplay for Pilgrim (a 2000 movie sometimes shown as Inferno), which stars Ray Liotta. He also scripted the 2002 adaptation of the Melvin Burgess novel An Angel for May.

He was the regular writer on X-Men with artist Salvador Larroca in 2005, writing issues #166-187. Milligan returned to Human Target with a straight to graphic novel story "Final Cut", after which he wrote all of 21 issues of the ongoing series for Vertigo.

In 2006, he wrote a five issue mini series titled X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl with artist Nick Dragotta and co-creator Mike Allred for Marvel Comics.

In 2007, Milligan wrote a continuing series featuring Infinity, Inc. Max Fiumara was scheduled to do art chores on the book. In July 2007 a Wildstorm series by Milligan started, called The Programme. It features the revival of a Soviet Cold War superhero. Milligan was also involved in 2007's Batman crossover, The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul, by writing the lead-in Batman Annual #26, as well as the parts of the series in the Robin monthly title.

Milligan penned the script for the BBC interactive animated series "Meta4orce".

It was announced in October 2008 that Milligan would be taking over writing duties on the long-running Vertigo comic series Hellblazer. He also wrote the 2008 seasonal one-shot "Moon Knight: Silent Knight" with artist Laurence Campbell. At Vertigo he wrote Greek Street, set in the London street of the same name. He also wrote the miniseries Sub-Mariner: The Depths for Marvel's Marvel Knights imprint which ended in March 2008.

He has been announced as the writer for an upcoming ongoing series for DC Comics featuring the Red Lantern Corps, scheduled to debut in June 2011. He will also be writing Justice League Dark, a new spin-off of the Justice League franchise starring John Constantine and Shade, the Changing Man.

Bibliography

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Cover of X-Statix #26.

British publishers

Titles published by various British publishers include:

• Pacific Comics:
  • Vanguard Illustrated:
    • "Freakwave!" (with Brendan McCarthy, in #1-3, 1983-1984)
    • "The God Run" (with George Freeman, in #6, 1984)
• Eclipse:
  • Strange Days #1-3 (with Brendan McCarthy and Brett Ewins, 1984-1985)
  • The Johnny Nemo Magazine #1-3 (with Brett Ewins, 1985-1986)
• Mister X Special: "Mister Insect X" (with Brett Ewins, one-shot, 1990) collected in Dean Motter's Mister X: The Brides of Mister X and Other Stories (hc, 320 pages, Dark Horse, 2011, ISBN 1-5958-2645-9)
• Atomeka:
  • A1:
    • "Big Death" (with David Lloyd, in #2, 1990)
    • "The Temple of Sweat" (with John Higgins, in True Life Bikini Confidential, 1990)
    • "In the Penal Colony" (with Brett Ewins, in #5, 1991)

Fleetway

• 2000 AD:
  • Tharg's Future Shocks:
    • The Best of Tharg's Future Shocks (160 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-905437-81-1) includes:
      • "The Man Who Was Too Clever" (with Brett Ewins, in #216, 1981)
      • "Subterraneans" (with Jose Casanovas, in #365, 1984)
      • "Bill Tompkins Meets Bill Tompkins" (with Jose Casanovas, in #371, 1984)
      • "Bad Timing" (with Massimo Belardinelli, in #375, 1984)
      • "The Castaway" (with Geoff Senior, in #390, 1984)
      • "Sixty Hours that Shook the World" (with Brendan McCarthy, in #391, 1984)
      • "Medusa" (with Cliff Robinson, in #394, 1984)
      • "The Search for Spot" (with Jeff Anderson, in #398, 1984)
      • "Bad Maxwell" (with Brendan McCarthy, in #402, 1985)
      • "Crazy War" (with Anthony Jozwiak, in #404, 1985)
      • "Extra, Extra!" (with Jose Casanovas, in #407, 1985)
      • "Nerves of Steel" (with Will Simpson, in #408, 1985)
      • "But is it Art?" (with Eric Bradbury, in #409, 1985)
      • "Eggravation" (with Eric Bradbury, in #420, 1985)
      • "Grainger in Paradise" (with Kev Hopgood, in #426, 1985)
      • "Car Wars" (with John Higgins, in #434, 1985)
      • "Speak No Evil" (with Eric Bradbury, in #434, 1985)
      • "The Long Sleep" (with Jeff Anderson, in #435, 1985)
      • "Project Salvation" (with John Higgins, in #436, 1985)
      • "The War with the Slobb" (with Barry Kitson, in #437, 1985)
      • "The Revenge of the Yallop Cringe" (with Geoff Senior, in #438, 1985)
      • "Eric the Wild" (with Anthony Jozwiak, in #439, 1985)
      • "Prisoner of Conscience" (with Barry Kitson, in #440, 1985)
      • "Doin' Time" (with Robin Smith, in #441, 1985)
      • "It's the Thought That Counts" (with Steve Dillon, in #442, 1985)
      • "The Armageddon Game" (with Anthony Jozwiak, in #462, 1986)
  • "The Ghost Outside the Machine!" (with Jose Casanovas, in #374, 1984)
  • "The Possessed" (with Trevor Goring, in #375, 1984)
  • "The Snikker Snack" (with Jeff Anderson, in #410, 1985)
  • Sooner or Later:
    • "Sooner or Later" (with Brendan McCarthy and Tony Riot, in #468-499, 1986)
    • "Swifty's Return" (with Jamie Hewlett, in #614-617, 1989)
  • Bad Company:
    • The Complete Bad Company (tpb, 368 pages, Rebellion, 2011, ISBN 978-1-9075-1946-8) collects:
      • "Bad Company" (with Brett Ewins and Jim McCarthy, in #500-519, 1986-1987)
      • "The Bewilderness" (with Brett Ewins and Jim McCarthy, in #548-557, 1987-1988)
      • "The Krool Heart" (with Brett Ewins and Jim McCarthy, in #576-585, 1988)
      • "Simply" (with Brett Ewins and Steve Dillon, in #601, 1988)
      • "Young Men Marching" (with Brett Ewins, in Annual '89, 1988)
      • "Kano" (with Brett Ewins and Jim McCarthy, in #828-837, 1993)
      • "Down Among the Dead Men" (with Brett Ewins and Jim McCarthy, in Annual '01, 2000)
      • "Bad Company 2002" (with Brett Ewins and Jim McCarthy, in prog 2002, #1273-1277, 2001-2002)
    • "Ararat" (with Brett Ewins and Jim McCarthy, in Annual '90, 1989)
  • Rogue Trooper:
    • "The Fanatics" (with José Ortiz, in Sci-Fi Special '86, 1986)
    • "Nort by Nortwest" (with José Ortiz, in Annual '87, 1986)
  • "The Dead" (with Massimo Belardinelli, in #510-519, 1987)
  • "Freaks" (with John Higgins, in #542-547, 1987)
  • "Judge Anderson: Dear Diary" (with Eddy Cant, in Annual '88, 1987)
  • "Tribal Memories" (with Tony Wright, in #585-588, 1988)
  • Bix Barton:
    • "Barton's Beasts" (with Jim McCarthy, in #663-668, 1990)
    • "The Indigestible Case of the Haunted Full English" (with Jim McCarthy, in Sci-Fi Special '90, 1990)
    • "The Disproportionate Man" (with Jim McCarthy, in Winter Special '90, 1990)
    • "Carry On Barton" (with Jim McCarthy, in #723-728, 1991)
    • "Lovesick World" (with Jim McCarthy, in #737-741, 1991)
    • "Bloated Case of the Fatted Keef" (with Jim McCarthy, in #761-766, 1991)
    • "The Mouth Thief" (with Jim McCarthy, in Yearbook '93, 1992)
    • "The Crying Scotsman" (with Jim McCarthy, in Sci-Fi Special '93, 1993)
    • "Nigel the Napolean of East Finchley" (with Jim McCarthy, in #912-917, 1994)
  • "Shadows" (with Richard Elson, in #672-681, 1990)
  • "Hewligan's Haircut" (with Jamie Hewlett, in #700-707, 1990) collected as Hewligan's Haircut (tpb, 52 pages, Time Warner Paperbacks, 1991, ISBN 1-8538-6246-0; hc, 48 pages, Rebellion, 2005, ISBN 1-9042-6506-5)
• "Judge Dredd: Judge Planet" (with Shaky Kane, in Judge Dredd Mega Special, 1991)
• Revolver:
  • "Rogan Gosh: Star of the East" (with Brendan McCarthy, in #1-6, 1990)

DC Comics

Titles published by DC Comics include:

• Batman:
  • Batman:
    • "Dark Knight, Dark City" (with Kieron Dwyer, in #452-454, 1990)
    • "The Idiot Root, Part One: The Queen of Hearts" (with Norm Breyfogle, in #472, 1991)
    • "The Idiot Root, Part Three: Into the Idiot Zone" (with Norm Breyfogle, in #473, 1991)
    • The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul (hc, 256 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1785-0; tpb, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2032-0) includes:
      • "Resurrection Shuffle" (with David Lopez, in Annual #26, 2007)
      • "Part One" (with Freddie Williams II, in Robin #168, 2008)
      • "Part Five" (with David Baldeon, in Robin #169, 2008)
  • Detective Comics:
    • "The Hungry Grass!" (with Jim Aparo, in #629, 1991)
    • "And the Executioner Wore Stiletto Heels" (with Jim Aparo, in #630, 1991)
    • "The Golem of Gotham" (with Jim Aparo, in #631-632, 1991)
    • "Identity Crisis" (with Tom Mandrake, in #633, 1991)
    • "The Bomb" (with Jim Aparo, in #638, 1991)
    • "The Idiot Root, Part Two: The Queen of Hearts" (with Jim Aparo, in #639, 1991)
    • "The Idiot Root, Part Four: The Cook, the Bat, and the Idiot" (with Jim Aparo, in #640, 1992)
    • "The Library of Souls" (with Jim Aparo, in #643, 1992)
    • Private Casebook (hc, 160 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-2009-6; tpb, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2015-0) includes:
      • "The Suit of Sorrows" (with Dustin Nguyen, in #842, 2008)
  • Batman: Catwoman Defiant (with Tom Grindberg, graphic novel, 1992)
  • Scarecrow: "Mistress of Fear" (with Duncan Fegredo, one-shot, 1998) collected in Batman: Scarecrow Tales (tpb, 176 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-4012-0443-0)
  • Batman Confidential #31-35: "The Bat and the Beast" (with Andy Clarke, 2009) collected as Batman: The Bat and the Beast (tpb, 128 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2794-5)
• Generation Hex: "Humanity's Last Stand" (with Adam Pollina, one-shot, 1997) collected in Return to the Amalgam Age of Comics: The DC Comics Collection (tpb, 160 pages, 1997, ISBN 1-5638-9382-7)
• JLA Classified #37-41: "Kid Amazo" (with Carlos D'Anda, 2007) collected as JLA: Kid Amazo (tpb, 128 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1630-7)
• Infinity, Inc.:
  • Luthor's Monsters (tpb, 128 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1815-6) collects:
    • "Luthor's Monsters" (with Max Fiumara and Travel Foreman, in #1-5, 2007-2008)
    • "Persona" (with Matthew Southworth, in #3-5, 2008)
  • The Bogeyman (tpb, 128 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1998-5) collects:
    • "The Influencing Machines of Metropolis" (with Matt Camp, in #6-7, 2008)
    • "The Bogeyman" (with Pete Woods, in #8-10, 2008)
  • "Schizomania" (with Javier Aranda, in #11-12, 2008)
• Flashpoint: Secret Seven #1-3 (with George Pérez and Fernando Blanco, 2011)
• Justice League Dark #1-ongoing (with Mikel Janin, 2011-...)
• Red Lanterns #1-ongoing (with Ed Benes, 2011-...)

Vertigo

Titles published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint include:

• Skreemer #1-6 (with Brett Ewins and Steve Dillon, 1989) collected as Skreemer (tpb, 176 pages, 2002, ISBN 1-56389-925-6)
• Shade, the Changing Man:
  • The American Scream (tpb, 168 pages, 2003, ISBN 1-8402-3716-3) collects:
    • "Execution Day" (with Chris Bachalo, in #1, 1990)
    • "Who Shot JFK?" (with Chris Bachalo, in #2, 1990)
    • "All the President's Assassins!" (with Chris Bachalo, in #3, 1990)
    • "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" (with Chris Bachalo, in #4, 1990)
    • "Hollywood Babble On" (with Chris Bachalo, in #5-6, 1990)
  • The Edge of Vision (tpb, 192 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2539-X) collects:
    • "The Nameless" (with Chris Bachalo, in #7, 1991)
    • "Love and Haight" (with Chris Bachalo, in #8, 1991)
    • "The Prophet Margin" (with Chris Bachalo, in #9, 1991)
    • "Invasion of the Normalcy Snatchers" (with Bill Jaaska, in #10, 1991)
    • "Edge of Vision" (with Chris Bachalo, in #11-13, 1991)
  • Scream Time (tpb, 176 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2768-6) collects:
    • "The Santa Fe Trial" (with Bryan Talbot, in #14, 1991)
    • "The White Sheep on the Green Hill" (with Chris Bachalo, in #15, 1991)
    • "How the Vest Was One" (with Chris Bachalo, in #16, 1991)
    • "Darkness at High Noon" (with Chris Bachalo, in #17, 1991)
    • "Scream Time" (with Chris Bachalo, in #18, 1991)
    • "Bethlehem U.S.A." (with Chris Bachalo, in #19, 1992)
  • "Off the Road" (with Chris Bachalo and Brendan McCarthy, in #20-25, 1992)
  • "Shades of Lenny" (with Chris Bachalo, in #26, 1992)
  • "Shade, the Changing Woman" (with Colleen Doran, in #27-29, 1992)
  • "Another Life" (with Duncan Eagleson, in #30, 1992)
  • "Ernest and Jim" (with Colleen Doran, in #31-32, 1993)
  • "Birth Pains" (with Chris Bachalo, in #33-35, 1993)
  • "The Passion Child" (with Chris Bachalo and Peter Gross, in #36-37, 1993)
  • "The Great American Novel" (with Chris Bachalo and Glyn Dillon, in #38, 1993)
  • "Pond Life" (with Chris Bachalo and Scot Eaton, in #39, 1993)
  • "Stains, Pains and Automobiles" (with Chris Bachalo and Glyn Dillon, in #40, 1993)
  • "Pygmalion Fever" (with Glyn Dillon, in #41, 1993)
  • "History Lesson" (with Chris Bachalo, Steve Yeowell and Philip Bond, in #42-44, 1993-1994)
  • "A Season in Hell" (with Chris Bachalo, Glyn Dillon and Philip Bond, in #44-50, 1994)
  • "The Morning of the Masks" (with Sean Phillips, in #51-53, 1994)
  • "Floored" (with Mark Buckingham, in #54, 1994)
  • "Simply Subterranean" (with Mark Buckingham, in #55, 1995)
  • "Skinstamatic" (with Mark Buckingham and Michael Lark, in #56, 1995)
  • "Double Exposure" (with Mark Buckingham, in #57, 1995)
  • "Shot in the City" (with Michael Lark, in #58, 1995)
  • "Nasty Infections" (with Mark Buckingham, Michael Lark, Richard Case and Andy Pritchett, in #59-64, 1995)
  • "Magic Tricks" (with Jamie Tolagson, in #64, 1995)
  • "The Impossible Photograph" (with Richard Case, in #65, 1995)
  • "The Alligator People" (with Richard Case, in #66, 1995)
  • "The Fool of the Forth" (with Richard Case and Jamie Tolagson, in #67, 1996)
  • "The Living and the Dead" (with Richard Case, in #68, 1996)
  • "Remember Me" (with Richard Case, in #69, 1996)
  • "How It All Started" (with Richard Case, in #70, 1996)
  • "One Girl's Crazy Story" (with Mike Allred, in Vertigo X Anniversary Preview, 2003)
• Animal Man #27-32 (with Chas Truog, 1991)
• Enigma #1-8 (with Duncan Fegredo, 1993) collected as Enigma: The Lizard, The Head, The Enigma (tpb, 208 pages, 1995, ISBN 1-5638-9192-1)
• The Extremist #1-4 (with Ted McKeever, 1993)
• Face (with Duncan Fegredo, 1995)
• Tank Girl:
  • The Odyssey #1-4 (with Jamie Hewlett, 1995) collected as Tank Girl: The Odyssey (tpb, 104 pages, 2003, ISBN 1-8402-3494-6)
  • Tank Girl Movie Adaptation (with Andy Pritchett, graphic novel, 1995)
• Egypt (with Glyn Dillon and Roberto Corona, 1995-1996)
• The Eaters (with Dean Ormston, 1995)
• Girl #1-3 (with Duncan Fegredo, 1996)
• Weird War Tales #4: "War & Peas" (with Duncan Fegredo, 1997)
• The Minx #1-8 (with Sean Phillips, 1998-1999)
• Heartthrobs #3: "Death of a Romantic" (with Eduardo Risso, 1999)
• Human Target (with Edvin Biuković, Javier Pulido, Cliff Chiang and Cameron Stewart, 1999-2005):
  • Chance Meetings (tpb, 200 pages, 2000, ISBN 1-4012-2666-3) collects:
    • Human Target #1-4 (1999)
    • Final Cut (graphic novel, 2002)
  • Second Chances (tpb, 256 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3061-X) collects:
    • Human Target #1-10 (2003-2004)
  • Human Target #11-21 (2004-2005)
• Weird Western Tales #4: "What a Man's Gotta Do" (with Duncan Fegredo, 2001)
• Vertigo Pop! London #1-4: "My Generation" (with Philip Bond, 2003)
• Hellblazer (with Simon Bisley, Giuseppe Camuncoli and Stefano Landini, 2009-...) collected as:
  • Scab (collects #250-255, tpb 128 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2501-2)
  • Hooked (collects #256-260, tpb 128 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2728-7)
  • India (collects #261-266, tpb 144 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2848-8)
  • Bloody Carnations (collects #267-275, tpb 232 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3152-7)
• Greek Street (with Davide Gianfelice, 2009-2010) collected as:
  • Blood Calls for Blood (collects #1-5, tpb, 144 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2573-X)
  • Cassandra Complex (collects #6-11, tpb, 144 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2847-X)
  • Madea's Luck (collects #12-16, tpb, 128 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3280-9)
• House of Mystery (with Giuseppe Camuncoli and Stefano Landini, 2009-2010):
  • "Letter from a Suicide" (in Halloween Annual #1, 2009) collected in House of Mystery: The Beauty of Decay (tpb, 160 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2756-2)
  • "Bonfire Night" (in Halloween Annual #2, 2010) collected in House of Mystery: Conception (tpb, 160 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3264-7)
• Vertigo Crime: The Bronx Kill (with James Romberger, graphic novel, 2010)
• Strange Adventures: "P•A•R•T•N•E•R•S" (with Sylvain Savoia, one-shot, 2011)

Marvel Comics

Titles published by Marvel titles include:

• X-Men:
  • Archangel: Phantom Wings (with Leonardo Manco, one-shot, 1996)
  • The Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #1-4 (with John Paul Leon, 1996) collecetd as The Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix (tpb, 96 pages, 1997, ISBN 0-7851-0556-5)
  • Magneto #1-4 (with Jorge González and Kelley Jones, 1996-1997)
  • X-Statix Omnibus (hc, 1200 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5844-8) collects:
    • X-Force #116-129 (with Mike Allred, Darwyn Cooke and Duncan Fegredo, 2001-2002)
    • X-Statix #1-26 (with Mike Allred, Darwyn Cooke, Paul Pope and Philip Bond, 2002-2004)
    • Wolverine/Doop #1-2: "The Pink Mink" (with Darwyn Cooke, 2003)
    • X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl #1-5 (with Nick Dragotta and Mike Allred, 2006)
    • I ♥ Marvel: My Mutant Heart: "How Love Works" (with Marcos Martín, one-shot, 2006)
    • Nation X #4: "Dooptopia" (with Mike Allred, 2010)
  • Wolverine/Punisher #1-5 (with Lee Weeks, 2004) collected as Wolverine/Punisher (tpb, 120 pages, 2004, ISBN 0-7851-1432-7)
  • X-Men (with Salvador Larocca, 2005-2006) collected as:
    • Golgotha (collects #166-170, tpb, 120 pages, 2005, ISBN 0-7851-1650-8)
    • Bizarre Love Triangle (collects #171-174, tpb, 96 pages, 2005, ISBN 0-7851-1665-6)
    • X-Men/Black Panther: Wild Kingdom (collects #175-176, tpb, 96 pages, 2005, ISBN 0-7851-1789-X)
    • Decimation: X-Men - The Day After (collects #177-181, tpb, 160 pages, 2006, ISBN 0-7851-1984-1)
    • The Blood of Apocalypse (collects #182-187, tpb, 216 pages, 2006, ISBN 0-7851-1985-X)
• Elektra #1-13, 17 (with Mike Deodato, 1996-1998)
• Spider-Man's Tangled Web #5-6: "Flowers for Rhino" (with Duncan Fegredo, 2001) collected in Spider-Man's Tangled Web Volume 1 (tpb, 144 pages, 2002, ISBN 0-7851-0803-3)
• The Punisher:
  • Official Movie Adaptation #1-3: "Family Business" (with Pat Olliffe, 2004) collected as The Punisher: Official Movie Adaptation (tpb, 154 pages, 2004, ISBN 0-7851-1410-6)
  • "Father's Day" (with Goran Parlov, in The Punisher: Frank Castle MAX #75, 2009)
  • PunisherMAX: Happy Ending (with Juan Jose Ryp, one-shot, 2010)
• Venom vs. Carnage #1-4 (with Clayton Crain, 2004) collected as Spider-Man: Venom vs. Carnage (tpb, 96 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-1524-2)
• Toxin #1-6: "The Devil You Know" (with Darick Robertson, 2005) collected as Toxin: The Devil You Know (tpb, 144 pages, 2005, ISBN 0-7851-1804-7)
• Moon Knight: "Silent Knight" (with Laurence Campbell, one-shot, 2008) colleceted in Moon Knight: The Death of Marc Spector (hc, 152 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3218-X; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3298-8)
• Sub-Mariner: The Depths #1-5 (with Esad Ribic, 2008-2009) collected as Sub-Mariner: The Depths (hc, 120 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3329-1; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3337-2)
• Dark Reign: The Cabal: "Dinner with Doom" (with Tonci Zonjic, one-shot, 2009) collected in Siege Prelude (tpb, 264 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4310-6)
• Daredevil: Black & White: "Second Sight" (with Jason Latour, one-shot, 2010)
• The Mystic Hands of Dr. Strange: "Melancholia" (with Frank Brunner, one-shot, 2010)
• 5 Ronin #1-5 (with Tomm Coker, Dalibor Talajic, Laurence Campbell, Goran Parlov and Leandro Fernandez, 2011) collected as 5 Ronin (hc, 136 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5632-1; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5101-X)
• Fear Itself: The Home Front #1-7: "The Age of Anxiety" (with Elia Bonetti, 2011)

Other US publishers

Titles published by various US publishers include:

• Skin (with Brendan McCarthy and Carol Swain, graphic novel, Tundra Publishing, 1992)
• Aliens: Sacrifice (with Paul Johnson, one-shot, Dark Horse, 1993) collected in Aliens: Salvation and Sacrifice (tpb, 112 pages, 2001, ISBN 1-5697-1561-0)
• The Dark Gate: "The Hunger Artists" (with Brett Ewins, Cyberosia, 2004)
• The Programme (with C. P. Smith, Wildstorm, 2007-2008) collected as:
  • Volume 1 (collects #1-6, tpb, 144 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1815-6)
  • Volume 2 (collects #7-12, tpb, 144 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1998-5)
• Army of Two #1-6: "Across the Border" (with Dexter Soy, IDW Publishing, 2010) collected as Army of Two (tpb, 144 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-6001-0739-7)
• After Dark #0-3 (with Sara Biddle, Jeff Nentrup and Leonardo Manco, Radical Comics, 2010-2011)

Filmography

• Pilgrim AKA Inferno (2000)
• An Angel For May (2002)

References

• Peter Milligan at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Peter Milligan at 2000 AD online
• Peter Milligan at IMDb

External links

• Official website

• Peter Milligan: Skreemer to X-Statix, Sequential Tart, September 2002
• "Infinity Inc." and Beyond: Talking with Peter Milligan, Comic Book Resources, March 29, 2007
• Interview with Peter Milligan, Liberation Frequency, June 23, 2009
• Shades of Peter Milligan, interview conducted by G. Willow Wilson, Standard Attrition, February 10, 2009