{{short description|British comic book creator}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox comics creator | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1961 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = British | cartoonist = | write = y | art = | pencil = y | ink = y | edit = | publish = | letter = y | color = | alias = | signature = <!-- very optional --> | notable works = ''Strangehaven'' | awards = "Best Self-Published/Independent Comic" National Comics Award (1997) | website = {{url|www.millidge.com}} | nonUS = y }} '''Gary Spencer Millidge''' (born 1961) is a British comic book creator best known for his series ''Strangehaven''. He has also written and contributed to books about comics.
==Biography== {{Expand section|date=December 2009}} In 1995 Millidge began his ''Strangehaven'' series and in the same month published a short ''Strangehaven'' story in the comics anthology ''Negative Burn''.
''Strangehaven'' ran for ten years from 1995 to 2005. In 2014, Millidge returned to the series as part of Soaring Penguin Press‘s anthology magazine ''Meanwhile''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Méalóid |first=Pádraig Ó |date=2014-12-11 |title=Meanwhile, After Nine Years, Gary Spencer Millidge's Strangehaven Is Back... |url=https://www.comicsbeat.com/meanwhile-after-nine-years-gary-spencer-millidges-strangehaven-is-back/ |access-date=2024-09-10 |website=The Beat |language=en-US}}</ref>''.''
Millidge also writes about comics, editing ''Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman'' and ''Alan Moore: Storyteller'' as well as writing ''Comic Book Design''.<ref>[http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_sunday_interview_gary_spencer_millidge/ CR Sunday Interview: Gary Spencer Millidge], ''The Comics Reporter'', July 19, 2009</ref>
==Bibliography== ===Comics=== Comics work includes:
*''Strangehaven'' #1- (script and art, Abiogenesis Press, 1995-) collected as: **''Arcadia'' (collects #1-6, foreword by Dave Sim, 2001 {{ISBN|0-946790-04-3}}) **''Brotherhood'' (collects #7-12, foreword by Bryan Talbot, 2001 {{ISBN|0-946790-05-1}}) **''Conspiracies'' (collects #13-18, foreword by Dave Gibbons, 2005 {{ISBN|0-946790-07-8}}) * "Strangehaven: Custard Creams" (script and art, in ''Negative Burn'' #24, Caliber Comics, 1995) * "From Hell and Back" (script and art, in ''Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror'' #9, Bongo Comics, 2003)
===Non-fiction=== * ''Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman'' (edited by Gary Spencer Millidge and Smoky Man, 352 pages, Abiogenesis, December 2003, {{ISBN|0-946790-06-X}}) *''Comic Book Design: The Essential Guide to Creating Great Comics and Graphic Novels'' (160 pages, Random House, July 2009, {{ISBN|0-8230-9796-X}}) *''Alan Moore: Storyteller'' (336 pages, ILEX, August 2011, {{ISBN|1-907579-12-5}})
==Awards== As well as numerous nominations, including one for the 1997 "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition" Eisner Award, he won the 1997 "Best Self-Published/Independent Comic" National Comics Award for ''Strangehaven''.
''Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman'' was also nominated for the 2003 Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction.
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==References== {{refbegin}} *{{gcdb|type=credit|search=Gary+Spencer+Millidge|title=Gary Spencer Millidge}} *{{comicbookdb|type=creator|id=933|title=Gary Spencer Millidge}} {{refend}}
==External links== *{{official website|http://www.millidge.com}} *[https://millidge.blogspot.com/ Blog] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090928032608/http://www.comicspace.com/millidge/ Gary Spencer Millidge] at ComicSpace
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