Pretentious High Schooler Talks About Art : Brendan McCarthy

I've always been drawn to retro comic book artists with exaggerated and colorful art styles and McCarthy met all my demands when I first saw him.

Brendan McCarthy was born in London. As a boy as soon as he could draw he made his own home made comics. After he left Chelsea Art College he studied film and Fine Art Painting, and it was there he decided to become a full time artist. After doing a indiependent comic and working for a british weekly music paper he started working for 2000 AD for comics such as Judge Dredd.

Eventualy he would be inspired by George Miller's Mad Max 2 to make a post-apocolypic surfing story called Freakwave. McCarthy also worked as designer for films such as Highlander, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Lost in Space, and The Borrowers. Hes also been hired by Saturday Night Live producer to write and design the visual gags in the film Coneheads. McCarthy spent a good majority or his time in the 90s working in film and television. Which include the hit cartoon ReBoot and character designer for War Planets. In recent times, he was recently hired to co-write and design Mad Max-Fury Road alongside George Miller himself. The two are also collaborating on an eventual animated feature called Fur Brigade.

McCarthy's beautiful artistic eye and love the wasteland feel are what made the new Mad Max movie feel so alive. His beautiful style and love of color also reign supreme in his comic books. He's worked in so many movies, had he not been there things would've been much more differently.