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Jock (cartoonist) Jock (cartoonist) Mark Simpson, known by the pen name Jock, is a British cartoonist, best known for his work in "2000 AD", "The Losers", and more recently "Batman" and "Wolverine". Jock began his professional career at British comics magazine "2000 AD", on series including "Judge Dredd" and "Lenny Zero", the latter with writer Andy Diggle. It was with Diggle that he got his big break in the American comic book market at DC Comics and their Vertigo imprint, working on "The Losers" and "". Also at Vertigo and with Mike Carey, another former "2000 AD" writer, Jock worked on an