Judge Dredd: The Complete Brian Bolland

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In The Art of Brian Bolland, he also mentions in passing that a bad experience with a Marvel UK Hulk cover and a later oddity with a She-Hulk cover featuring Howard the Duck have given him a mild "phobia" of Marvel and the company's production line method that overrules his art style. Speaking circa 2000, Bolland said that since The Killing Joke he has only drawn comics that he also wrote. Although his forays into interior artwork are almost universally acclaimed, Bolland is now far more commonly seen as 'just' a cover artist – although he notes that he has never decided to actually solely create covers, having merely explored other jobs from strip work. As early as 1962, aged 11, Bolland remembers thinking that " Carmine Infantino's work on the Flash and Gil Kane's on Green Lantern and the Atom had a sophistication about it that I hadn't [previously] seen. I'd been working for DC for a few years, and they had a fairly tolerant attitude to my slow pace of work.

and that I was going to have to do the same" – was a shock, but proved to be "the very best kind of training ground. To prepare for his work, Bolland "clipped pictures of the most beautiful women of the time – Christy Turlington, Stephanie Seymour, etc. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine. Paul: Is it safe to assume you have a fairly extensive private reference library of books and comics? This book will include pages from the Judge Dredd epics; The Cursed Earth, The Day the Law Died, The Judge Child Quest, and Bolland's masterpiece Judge Death Lives.As well as the DTWAGE adverts, Bolland and most of his peers also contributed artwork to advertise, and/or feature in programme booklets for the UK Comicon, starting c. com on 29 June), the team printers Imago have provided an in-depth look into the production and printing of this stunning oversized deluxe hardcover. It will feature high-resolution scans of original art, showing Bolland’s delicate inking brushwork in unprecedented detail, as well as the titles and word balloons placed over it at the time by IPC’s art team. I remember seeing Peter Greenaway's film Drowning By Numbers, in which they had these numbers placed subtly in every scene, and I really liked that idea. He was the penciller of Camelot 3000, Batman: Black and White (which he also wrote) and numerous other titles.

By the end of 1977 Brian Bolland was regularly handling art chores for John Wagner's scripts on Judge Dredd. Also included is a gallery of covers ranging from 2000 AD to the Judge Dredd reprints published by Eagle Comics which brought Brian to the attention of American readers and show off Bolland’s inventiveness and sardonic humour.In addition to his landmark runs on Animal Man and The Invisibles, Bolland has also produced lengthy runs on covers for Geoff Johns' The Flash (from roughs by series editor Joey Cavalieri [95]) and the Batman anthology series Batman: Gotham Knights, as well as assorted issues of Tank Girl (for original UK publication Deadline and the two subsequent Vertigo miniseries Tank Girl: The Odyssey and Tank Girl: Apocalypse), Superman, Green Lantern, Batman and many more, including a number of oneshots and miniseries for DC's offshoot Vertigo. Like so many of the projects I’ve been involved in, I just felt it needed to happen, and if I have to put it together myself then I guess that’s just what I’ll have to do. Ultimately that is what the book is all about: a tribute to a great artist, and the chance to present some pieces of comics history in a way they’ve never been seen before. Paul: Your status and legacy amongst 2000AD artists is quite obvious, but could I ask how you first came to be published by Tharg? It helps to try and imagine your cover is in a whole bank of thirty or more and you need it to stand out.

Bolland was not familiar with the Arthurian legends, and initially conceived Merlin as a comical character. while a longer story with 110 verses went unreleased for 17 years until publication in the compendium hardback Bolland Strips! Occasionally an editor will ask for something specific, as in the case of the first Invisibles cover, I drew for Shelly Bond. Paul: I see your art and I try to imagine how many hours it must have been laboured over sometimes, although from myself I can barely draw a stick man.A lot of his early work was with 2000 AD in which he drew several full page strips, however these days he mostly sticks only to cover duty. Likening the process to creating "a mini comic strip," Bolland says that "if any detail made any sense it had to be changed to something that didn't.

A few connections just completely dried up, and after months of follow-up e-mails I had to admit defeat, aware of the awful possibility that the owner might be ill, bereaved, or dead. After that I was given an encyclopaedia of natural history and in the early pages there were a few painted illustrations of dinosaurs…. Co-edited by Masters of British Comic Art author and artist David Roach and Rebellion graphic novels editor Oliver Pickles, many pages of Bolland’s 2000 AD work has already been located and scanned, brought together from private collections in the US, UK, France, and beyond.Co-creator of both Judge Anderson and The Kleggs, Bolland’s highly detailed style unfortunately precluded him from doing many sequential strips — although he found the time to pencil both Camelot 3000 and Batman: The Killing Joke for DC Comics. For a complete list of all current and announced editions, with review links, please visit our Index. The bare facts were these: altogether he had drawn 41 Judge Dredd strips; 13 Walter the Wobot one-page episodes; 1 Future Shock; 6 Dan Dare centrespreads (inked over Dave Gibbons’ pencils); 1 Dan Dare TV show page; 1 Spinball strip (for the 1979 Action Annual); 5 pinups; and a 3 figure mobile.