I walked into the Austin Convention Center expecting to finish my write-up of the Cyber Safety panel and upload the audio that I got from it yesterday. Instead, I was confronted by this man.

Adam Lavis and audio
That's not Judge Dredd. It's Adam Lavis, a British Documentarian who has spent the past few years following around Johnny Hicklenton, who is best known for his dark, emotionally raw renderings of the Judge Dredd graphic novel series, which sadly, is best known in the United States for an absolutely awful movie adaptation. What is not as well known about him is that he has been suffering from Multiple Sclerosis, and despite the challenges this poses, he has continued to draw hauntingly beautiful and ghostly illustrations of a character with a loyal, sometimes poisonous following that has not always enjoyed his vision of the character.
I first spoke with Adam Lavis, the man in the costume and the filmmaker, who talked about the significance of the film and how he got from Brighton, UK to Austin, TX.

Adam Lavis and audio



