Judge Dredd: The Complete Brian Bolland

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a] large part of [which] was taken up with comic strips about women tied up in fiendish and excruciating positions by mad robots. In fact, these books weren’t Rebellion’s first venture into this genre - their Zenith: Phase One Apex Edition had been published several years earlier, collecting together Grant Morrison’s and Steve Yeowell’s postmodern superhero.

Brian: I was told by the editor that my artwork hadn't turned up on time and they got someone in the Marvel "bullpen" to take my initial pencil prelim and knock off some artwork from it that day. The joy of the Artist's Edition format is the chance to luxuriate in artwork at the highest possible resolution, shown at the actual size it was drawn.But Brian continued to improve with each new strip and illustration, and happily the book includes much of his best work from the ‘80s, which represents Brian at the peak of his powers. When we produce inked artwork, the intention is to have the artwork reproduce in sharp black and white.

Though now primarily known as a cover artist on titles such as Batman: Gotham Knights and The Invisibles, his interior comics work has included the acclaimed Batman: The Killing Joke and Camelot 3000. He has however, produced odd covers for Marvel, First Comics, Continuity Comics, Eclipse Comics, New Comics and a dozen other companies, large and small, as well as book, magazine and record covers. In 1977, Bolland was approached by Syd Jordan to ghost some episodes of Jordan's newspaper strip Jeff Hawke, [37] after fellow fandom-pro artist Paul Neary had already done a fair number of them.

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.

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. 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. He would find a scene from the interior art that appeared to make for a good cover, or use a hook on the cover that outlined the plot of the issue. Incredibly prolific throughout his career, and writing under a diversity of pen names-often in concert with Alan Grant, with whom he devised and developed 2000 AD's sister comic, Judge Dredd: The Megazine-Wagner has worked extensively beyond the Thargian universe, originating and editing a number of British periodicals as well as writing many American standards, including BATMAN, LOBO, The Punisher and Star Wars bounty hunter Boba Fett.Bolland created cover artwork for the Animal Man, Wonder Woman, and Batman: Gotham Knights superhero comic book series. So many of these images were truly iconic that I didn’t think anybody would object to their inclusions. She later gave up illustration and became a cook for a vegetarian restaurant, [119] although she has since assisted her husband with his work, acting as colourist, inker, co-artist and ghost. Bolland's early work on Judge Dredd was much influenced by McMahon, a talented newcomer whose idiosyncratic style was fuelling the interest in the new character. The series was graced with considerable media hype, and Bolland found himself invited to San Diego Comic-Con and other conventions.