''Chiaroscuro'' was a horror series which appeared in the British weekly comic '' 2000 AD''. It was written by

Simon Spurrier Simon "Si" Spurrier (born 2 May 1981) is a British comics writer and novelist, who has previously worked as a cook, a bookseller, and an art director for the BBC. Getting his start in comics with the British small press, he went on to write hi ...

with art by

Cam Smith Cam Smith is a British comic book artist and inker known to British comic book readers for his work on '' 2000 AD'' and in the American comic book market for his collaborations with Gary Frank, inking that would earn him an Eisner Award nomi ...

(also known as Smudge).

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*Anthony Elvy is a film

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and the son of a once famous

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. He is sick of the fake sincerity that surrounds the film industry. *Samuel Erin is a seventy-year-old film director who is full of self-pity. He hands Elvy a film reel before he is killed in an accident.

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2006. Anthony Elvy heads to Elstree Film and Television Studios to do an on set interview with a film director by the name of Samuel Erin. During the interview, it is discovered that Erin is full of self-pity. At the end of the interview, he hands Elvy a film reel telling him it will be what he is best known for. Elvy decides to head home early to watch the reel. Elvy discovers, to his horror, that its actually a

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showing

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executing

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ns during

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in Grenada, 1983. He phones Erin for another interview but he is lying dead, impaled on a prop set and surrounded by fire.

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2000 AD profile
British comics Horror comics 2000 AD comic strips 2006 comics debuts {{UK-comics-stub

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