In the same year it was nominated for a Harvey Award for Best Original Graphic Album. His characters - including the dog – are as real as the story he's telling: animated with complex personalities, flaws, humor and emotion.' Laika won an Eisner award in 2008 for Best Teen graphic novel and a further nomination for Best Reality-based Work. Laika was well-received, with the New York Press remarking that 'the British comics creator has fashioned a poignant and accurate portrait of the lives Laika touched in the three years leading up to Sputnik 2's launch. His graphic novel, Laika, about the eponymous dog, the first living creature from Earth to enter orbit, was published in 2007.

Īs a part of the British Invasion of American comics, he wrote Children of the Voyager for Marvel in 1993 and Millennium Fever in 1995 for Vertigo. Some of this series was collected as Hugo Tate: O, America in 1993, which won in 1994 a UK Comic Art Award for best graphic novel. His series Hugo Tate ran in Deadline magazine from 1988 to 1994. Pleebus, who later starred in his own series of children's books. Here he created two of his best-known characters, Hugo Tate, a stick-man lost in a figuratively drawn world, and the shapeshifting Mr.

Ībadzis went freelance in 1988 when his career as a cartoonist took off in the pages of legendary UK comics and music magazine Deadline. In 1987, he secured a job at Marvel Comics' UK publishing branch where he was, at that time, the youngest-ever editor.

Laika by nick abadzis