Matt Smith (comics editor)
Matt Smith is a British editor and author. He is the current and longest-serving editor of the long-running British science fiction weekly comics anthology magazine 2000 AD and its sister title the Judge Dredd Megazine.
Career
Smith joined 2000 AD in 2000, after three years working as a desk editor for MacMillan, at the time the comic was changing ownership – from Egmont to Rebellion Developments. Starting out as the assistant to the new editor Andy Diggle, Smith was appointed as the ninth incarnation of Tharg the Mighty in January 2002.After Alan Barnes resigned from the Judge Dredd Megazine, Smith also took over the editorship thereof in 2006, taking the newly-created title editor-in-chief.
Since 2005 Smith has also branched out into writing: his credits so far include a Judge Dredd novel and three novellas, along with three more novellas for one of that series' many spinoffs, and regular stints on the syndicated Judge Dredd newspaper strips.
Editing
Comics edited include:- 2000 AD #1274 – ongoing, January 2002 – present
- Judge Dredd Megazine #241 – ongoing, February 2006 – present
Writing
Narrative prose
- Judge Dredd: The Final Cut
- Tomes of the Dead: The Words of Their Roaring
- Judge Dredd Year One: City Fathers
- Strontium Dog: Among the Missing
- Judge Dredd Year Two: Down and Out
- The Fall of Deadworld: A trilogy of novellas set in an grimmer alternative version of the Judge Dredd setting shortly before its destruction at the hands of the Dark Judges. The prose stories by Smith act as an extended prelude to the main Fall of Deadworld comic series, created for 2000 AD by writer Nigel "Kek-W" Long and artist Dave Kendall.
- *Red Mosquito
- *Bone White Seeds
- *Grey Flesh Flies
- *An omnibus containing all three novellas was published in June 2020.
- Zenith: "Permission to Land", short story in 2000 AD #2050, 2017
- ''Judge Dredd Year Three: Machineries of Hate''
Comics
- Dredd: "Top of the World, Ma-Ma" in Judge Dredd Megazine #328, 2012
- Judge Dredd: Year One #1–4, IDW Publishing, 2013
- Judge Dredd:
- *"The Jimps Club" in 2000 AD Free Comic Book Day issue, 2013
- *"The Badge" in 2000 AD FCBD 2014
- *"In Through the Out Door" in 2000 AD FCBD, 2015
- *"Forty Years of Hurt" in 2000 AD FCBD, 2017
- Cadet Dredd:
- *"Crowd Control" in 2000 AD FCBD, 2018
- *"Combat Ready" in 2000 AD #2183, 2020
Reviews
- ''Nemesis the Warlock: A Monograph''
Awards
- 2007: Won the "Favourite Editor" Eagle Award
- 2008: Won the "Favourite Editor" Eagle Award
- 2010: Nominated for the "Favourite Editor" Eagle Award
- 2011: Won the "Favourite Editor" Eagle Award
- 2012: Nominated for the "Favourite Editor" Eagle Award