Mighty Merger

Great News For All Readers! '80s anthologies join forces to become A1Deadline

- STEPHEN JEWELL

LOOKING TO DO SOMETHING creative after “the tumultuous time” of Covid, Dave Elliott “kind of fell down a rabbit hole, trying to figure out what Deadline would mean now” after being given the rights to the defunct, anarchic comics magazine, which he once edited for its former publisher, Tom Astor.

After being told by another creator that “if he ever revived A1 again, they'd love to do a story for it” - referring to the prestigious anthology series that Elliott also edited and published - “that little interaction wormed its way inside my head and sparked an idea,” he says. “Why not merge A1 and Deadline? I'd co-created one and worked on the other. I approached Deadline in a similar fashion to A1 and started to expand it from being a purely UK-based publication to bring in creators from elsewhere. Merging the two titles felt like I was picking up where I left off.”