In the beginning, ELECTRIC SOUP was only available in Glasgow, but when it was picked up by John Brown Publishing for national UK distribution, Quitely's work got the attention of David Bishop, the editor of JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE. It was while working on this book that he adopted his pseudonym, a spoonerism of “quite frankly”, as he didn't want his family to know it was he was working on, worried that they would been appalled. For those who are not familiar with ELECTRIC SOUP, the type of humor that it showcased was akin to Benny Hill on steroids. He wrote and drew a strip called THE GREENS, which was a parody of THE BROONS (the “Browns” as they are pronounced in Glaswegian). His first work was in the Scottish underground comic, ELECTRIC SOUP, in 1990. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1968. Frank Quitely’s original name was Vincent Deighan.
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