Judge Dredd: The Complete Brian Bolland

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Other covers followed for nearly a third of the first 30 progs, as well as stand-alone pages and some inking duties on Gibbons' Dan Dare. Bolland also contributed "A Miracle of Elisha" to Knockabout Comics' Old Bailey OZ Trial Special, written because Old Testament history had piqued the interest of Bolland when living near the British Museum.

It might seem like madness to want to go through the whole process again and again, but what can I say?The Judge Dredd art of Brian Bolland is regarded as some of the greatest comic art of the Eighties, and helped catapult both the series and Brian Bolland himself to international acclaim, leading him to work on such titles as Camelot 3000 and Batman: The Killing Joke. Later, Landau's Titan "decided they could repackage the Judge Dredd stories in an American comic format with new covers and sell it to America," and did under the brand " Eagle Comics". y]ou really have to be constantly thinking of ways that the image on the cover will intrigue and lure in the potential punter.

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. In recent years Brian has created several more covers for Rebellion’s various comics and books, but these were created digitally so were outside the remit of a book like this.

As the final deadline approached there was one last collector in San Francisco who answered my request on Comic Art Fans. In Britain, far fewer were part of the wider collecting community; many were fans of 2000 AD but nothing else, and were effectively off-grid as far as art visibility was concerned. The name echoes the character's mammalian look, resembling a hedgehog, although Bolland acknowledges that Armenian-American film director Rouben Mamoulian likely provided an inspiration on the name front. No colour was added to the title page, colophon, or chapter dividers, except for the Rebellion logo, which really pops.

The biggest thrill for me was seeing the emerging talent of Mick McMahon whose work spurred me on, along with John Wagner's terrific satirical stories, to do the best I could. He has contributed covers for Animal Man, Wonder Woman, The Invisibles, The Flash, Batman: Gotham Knights, Jack of Fables, Robin, Justice League of America and Zatanna. Brian: My earliest memory is of my father taking me round to his brother Frank’s house with a drawing I’d done. In 2006's The Art of Brian Bolland, he does suggest that "I trace my mild bondage fetish back to a book of Bible stories that must have been given to my father as a Sunday school gift when he was a child," wherein "was a picture of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednigo [sic]. So, you were clearly a fan of DC characters at what sounds like an early age, did the Marvel characters not appeal to you?Grudgingly I drew the number one cover that made it onto the issue – but as a protest I reversed the letter N in my signature as a code to remind myself that my "artistic integrity" had been despoiled. Coincidentally, when a time travel story arc saw Bolland's work coincide with the plot in such a way that he was able to produce a recreated cover from an alternate angle to shed new light on an initially inconsequential image. In 1989, Moore and Bolland's The Killing Joke received an Eisner Award for "Best Graphic Album," while Bolland was named separately as "Best Artist/Penciller/Inker" for the same work.

Not only was this work "[t]he best way to learn the simple rules of comic book storytelling," but "better still, it was going someplace where nobody I knew could see it.Roach wrote CREATING THE JUDGE DREDD BY BRIAN BOLLAND APEX EDITION: A HOW-TO GUIDE FOR THE RASH AND ENTHUSIASTIC for the Comics Journal, outlining the entire process. To prepare for his work, Bolland "clipped pictures of the most beautiful women of the time – Christy Turlington, Stephanie Seymour, etc.