Brian Bolland and Glenn Fabry have also produced a large number of iconic covers for the Vertigo line, Fabry probably being best known for his work on one title: Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher ( and the spin-off miniseries ).

Bolland, one of the very earliest British creators whose work was brought to America, drew the first 63 covers for Animal Man, mostly for DC, but also the first 6 Vertigo issues before handing over to a succession of other artists.

Bolland also wrote and illustrated stories for the anthology titles Heartthrobs and Strange Adventures ( 1999 ) and OGN 1001 Nights of Snowfall, as well as providing a cover each for the Gangland and Winter's Edge anthologies.

As well as honing the look of the character and contributing to the highest-profile early storylines, Bolland also created the look of two of the wider Dredd universe's most enduring characters: Judge Death ( and the other three Dark Judges ) and Judge Anderson.

From the 1970s to the present, Bolland has also produced one-off pieces of artwork for use as record ( including one for The Drifters in 1975 ), paperback book ( including the UK Titan editions of George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards anthologies ) and magazine covers ( including Time Out and a every major comics publication ).

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.

As well as the DTWAGE adverts, Bolland also contributed ( alongside most of his peers ) artwork to advertise, and / or feature in programme booklets for the UK Comicon, starting c. 1976.

This atmosphere allowed Bolland not only the time to produce his best work, but also " to do lots of other pieces of work in and around it.

In 1996, in accordance with his hopes to only draw interior work written by him also, Bolland wrote and drew the story " An Innocent Guy " for the anthology Batman: Black and White, in which an otherwise normal inhabitant of Gotham City documents his plan to carry out the ultimate perfect crime and assassinate the Dark Knight Detective.

" Having fully embraced the technology, Bolland has also produced a number of lessons / tutorials on his Official Website demonstrating his complex techniques.

# " In the Army Now " – 4: 31 ( original by Bolland, also covered by Status Quo )

Bolland is also a prolific remixer with a long résumé, including work with Orbital, Depeche Mode, Moby, The Prodigy and Tori Amos.

While at art school, Bolland drew and self-published a couple of fanzines and his work was published in British underground magazines Friendz, International Times and OZ.

Bolland " drew the first three episodes of the Judge Death story over the winter of 1979-80 ," as " just another villain in just another excellent John Wagner script.

Bolland drew all bar a couple of Walter's adventures, which appeared between Progs # 50-61 ; # 67-68 and # 84-85 ( with Ian Gibson drawing the first two episodes and Brendan McCarthy the last two ), and says that he " was usually able to complete one in a day.

In between Dredd assignments Bolland drew horror strips for Dez Skinn's House of Hammer, having been introduced to the comic through another of the " fanboy in-crowd ," Trevor Goring, who drew " a comic strip version of the movie Plague of the Zombies ," and asked Bolland to ink it.

") Bolland drew 13 episodes, and " Syd touched up some of the faces, a few details here and there, to make them look a bit more like him.

For editor Julius Schwartz, Bolland drew covers around which writers would craft stories, which included " a couple of Starro covers and the Superman Beastman cover # 422 ( Aug, 1986 ).

Bolland drew a pinup for Superman # 400 ( Oct. 1984 ) and its companion portfolio.

He drew the bulk of the first long-form Judge Dredd story, " The Cursed Earth ", with the slower, more meticulous Brian Bolland contributing occasional episodes.

The story was completed by Smith, Steve Dillon and Bolland, and was followed by the 26-part " Apocalypse War ", Carlos Ezquerra's triumphant return to the character he created, which he drew solo.

With issue # 12, Bolland took over cover duties ( from Fables cover artist James Jean ) on Fables spin-off Jack of Fables, which he continues to produce.

Bolland remains in high demand a cover artist, producing the vast majority of his work for DC Comics.

In 1971, his friend Dave Harwood " took his first step into printed mass production with his RDH Comix ," for which Bolland provided a cover ( featuring Norwich Cathedral ).

" Powerman dropped to a monthly schedule, and Coker soon got Bolland " a cover on 2000AD in May ' 77 with Prog 11 " ( 7 May 1977 ; signed " Bollo ").

Staton called his editor Jack Harris and told him that Bolland, a big Green Lantern fan, would " like to draw a Green Lantern cover ," Harris agreed.

" Bolland feels that " after my cover # 127 worked out the people at DC turned their gaze on London ... and particularly on the group of artists at 2000AD who had been weaned on the DC characters.

" Drawing inspiration from " a masterpiece of a cover by my idol, Alex Toth ," Bolland set out to " explore ideas ... that in real life people don't come labelled " GOODIES " and " BADDIES " and that all of us walk a tightrope and could easily fall on either side.

As his run progressed, " the job of getting a cover on Gotham Knights passed from Mark to a number of other people ," and Bolland " found more and more of first ideas for covers being turned down.

Although his forays into interior artwork are almost universally acclaimed, Bolland is far more commonly seen as ' just ' a cover artist-although he notes that he has never decided to actually " pursue covers exclusively ," having merely " branched off a little bit " from strip work.

Robinson ’ s extremely precise inking style has clearly been heavily influenced by the early work of Brian Bolland, and is for that reason extremely well suited to producing detailed, extremely well composed single images for cover art.

The work of the Bollandists Danile Paperbroch, Jean Bolland and Godfrey Henschen in the 17th century was one of the first pieces of scholarly research to establish the historicity of the saint's existence via their publications in Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca and paved the way for other scholars to dismiss the medieval legends.

Bolland provided covers for three issues of Mark Millar's Swamp Thing run ( 1995 ), and miniseries including Vamps ( 1994-5 ), both Vertigo Tank Girl ( 1995-6 ) miniseries and BLod + Water ( 2003 ) as well as the one-shot Zatanna: Everyday Magic ( 2003 ).

In 2010 he was accused of plagiarism by Brian Bolland for copying his work uncredited and selling it.

Brian Bolland based the character on Debbie Harry, " having recently drawn the singer into an advertisement for Forbidden Planet.

Richardson approached producer Mike Bolland, the newly appointed Channel Four youth and entertainment commissioning editor to propose a series of Comic Strip films for the channel.

Bolland agreed to his proposal, his first commission for the station and Jeremy Isaacs quickly approved the budget.

Richardson approached producer Mike Bolland, the newly appointed Channel Four youth and entertainment commissioning editor to propose a series of Comic Strip films for the channel.

Bolland agreed to his proposal, his first commission for the station and Jeremy Isaacs quickly approved the budget.

Brian Bolland ( born 1951 ) is a British comics artist, known for his meticulous, detailed linework and eye-catching compositions.

When American comics began to be imported into England, c. 1959, Bolland says that it " took a little while for me to discover them ," but by 1960 he was intrigued by Dell Comics ' Dinosaurus !, which fed into a childhood interest in dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes.

Growing up as " and only child in a house without culture ," ( Bolland says that his " mother and father had no use for art, literature or music "), he embraced the late 1960s pop culture explosion of " pirate radio stations, music ( particularly Frank Zappa ...), drug taking, psychedelia, " peace and love ," " dropping out ," the underground scene, Oz Magazine ," and other aspects of hippy culture epitomised by underground comix such as Robert Crumb's Zap Comix.

" While in Norwich, Bolland produced the first episodes of an adult Little Nemo in Slumberland parody entitled Little Nympho in Slumberland, and when he moved to London's Central School of Art and Design in 1973, he continued to produce ( mostly full-page ) Little Nympho strips for a 50-copy fanzine entitled Suddenly at 2-o-clock in the Morning.

" A few two-page strips " for D. C. Thomson resulted, but Bolland would refer to this period as his " lowest time.

Bolland provided many of the covers for these compendium issues.