The fact that I've had one of the best storytellers in the business, Arthur Ranson, along for most of the ride makes it even more memorable for me.' Fictional character biography Grant later said: 'A lot of Anderson counts among what I think of as my best work. This collaboration lasted until 1988, when their differences of opinion about how to develop Dredd's character came to a head while planning the last episode of the Judge Dredd story ' Oz.' After that, Grant wrote Anderson's stories on his own, while Wagner wrote Dredd's. When Anderson got her own series, Wagner and Grant also co-authored those stories. Short afterwards, Alan Grant began to co-write Judge Dredd with Wagner. 2000 AD's former editor Kelvin Gosnell has recounted that the comic's assistant editor Deirdre Vine at the time was the inspiration for the character, having been surreptitiously photographed across the office and the snap then given to Bolland who was told to, 'Make Anderson look like that.' A popular misconception is that artist Brian Bolland based the character on Debbie Harry, due to the mistaken belief that he had recently drawn the singer into an advertisement for the Forbidden Planet 2 store in London. John Wagner created both Judge Death and Judge Anderson for the Judge Dredd story 'Judge Death,' the latter helping introduce the Psi-Judges, which were seen as a natural progression. In 2012, the character appeared in the film Dredd, played by Olivia Thirlby. The character's popularity with readers led to her starring in her own series, Anderson: Psi-Division, which (since 1988) has been written almost exclusively by Alan Grant, often working with artist Arthur Ranson until 2005 Boo Cook drew a majority of the stories until 2012, since which a number of different artists have worked on the strip.

Created by writer John Wagner and artist Brian Bolland, Anderson made her debut as a supporting character in the Judge Dredd story 'Judge Death' ( 2000 AD #150, February 1980).

Judge Cassandra Anderson is a fictional law enforcer and psychic appearing in the British science fiction comics 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine. Judge Anderson in 'The Jesus Syndrome' (art by Arthur Ranson)

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