As 2000AD is primarily a gritty action/adventure comic you may think it's unlikely I've ever worked for it, but actually I did, many years ago! Not on the weekly, but I was commissioned to write an article for the 2000AD Annual 1985 about the IPC sci-fi heroes that had appeared in British comics before 2000AD.
As you know, 2000AD calls all its creators "droids", the conceit being that there's a workforce of robots slaving away on the comic. I was very amused that my article credited me as "Research Droid Lew Stringer". However, editor Steve MacManus (sorry, I mean Tharg) added a note at the end of the feature to announce that "I regret to report that scanning twenty-five million old British comics has caused research droid Stringer's circuits to blow!".
I'm still chuckling about that, nearly 40 years later.
I did another feature for the following year's annual as I recall; not really my cup of tea but it was some Dredd vs Death scorecard thing I think, heavily rewritten in places as I remember. It was the Heroes Before 2000AD article I'm most proud of though. Back then it wasn't often that British comics would acknowledge their history in such detail so it was a privilege to contribute. A few years later I was asked to write another feature on the classic heroes; this one I called Tales Before Dreddtime, and it appeared in the 2000AD Action Special in 1992.
I did a blog post about 2000AD's 40th anniversary five years ago and you can read that at this link:
https://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2017/02/its-2000ads-40th-anniversary.html
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