Skin (graphic novel) 

Skin

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Publisher Tundra Publishing
Date 1992
Creative team
Writer(s) Peter Milligan
Artist(s) Brendan McCarthy
ISBN ISBN 1858090008

Skin is a 48-page graphic novel written by Peter Milligan, created and drawn by Brendan McCarthy and colored by Carol Swain. It tells the story of a young skinhead, Martin Atchitson who grew up in 1970s London with thalidomide-related birth defects. Milligan has said the story partially addresses "universal themes of major companies shafting people, and corruption in terms of drugs and mass marketing."1

Skin was planned to be published in the 2000 AD spin-off magazine Crisis in 1990, but the story's controversial subject matter and explicit language made the publisher, Fleetway, uncomfortable.citation needed Printers refused to print it, citing similar reasons. The story remained in limbo until it was published as a graphic novel by Kevin Eastman's Tundra Publishing in 1992 with little controversy.

Hardcore band Modern Life Is War based their song "Martin Atchet" on the comic.

Reeferences

  1. ^ Peter Milligan interview, UGO

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