Kevin O'Neill

A pictorial tribute

Last week we heard of another shocking and dreadful loss of a comics legend, so I thought I would make a short pictorial tribute to honor Kevin O’Neill, and share some of the amazing covers he did for the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic.

When I started designing 2000 AD, I remember finding Kev’s original logo designs for ABC Warriors, Ro-Busters and Nemesis, and realising that I had a lot to live up to. Kev was an incredibly innovative artist and designer, with a graphic sensibility that will never be matched or replicated. He left us far too soon.

Here’s a photo I took of Kev in Westminster, London, sometime in 1988, and what follows are scans of 2000 AD production art featuring his work that I’m lucky to have in my collection.

I’ll share some detail scans too. Here’s one from the cover of Prog #239

Detail from the cover of Prog #222 … Love this!!!

This one belongs to DJ Food who also has the original art

RIP Kevin O’Neill, 1953 – 2022