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 ).

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.

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

Edward Bolland Osborn notes he is too complex to be compared to only one character, and has a qualities of many, preferring to describe him as a caricature " of the Polish character in the last days of the chevalerie, when the sabre was still the final argument and was the chief bulwark of the Christendom against the vast armies of Turks .".

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.

" Bolland contributed artwork to such popular and seminal Judge Dredd story-arcs as " Luna Period ," " The Cursed Earth ," " The Day the Law Died ," " The Judge Child Quest " and " Block Mania.

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.

In 1986, Bolland was one of several artists who contributed pages to the anniversary issue Batman # 400 ( Oct, 1986 ), his offering featuring villains Ra's Al Ghul and Catwoman.

Along with Brian Bolland and Mike McMahon he contributed to two of the character's most popular epic-length stories, " The Day the Law Died " and " The Judge Child ".

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 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 ).

" The young Bolland did not rate Marvel Comics as highly as DC, feeling the covers cluttered and the paper quality crude.

Bolland provided many of the covers for these compendium issues.

" In 1985, as a known fan, Bolland was approached by Nick Landau to select stories and draw covers for two Titan collections of the strip, with a third design going unpublished.

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 was allowed to " pick between two inkers ," but opted to ink his covers himself.

Approached by Bat-editor Mark Chiarello ( again ), Bolland was asked whether he would like to draw Batman covers for a new title, Gotham Knights.

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.

" Eventually, Bolland was " told he'd be off the book in a few issues time ," but after discovering that upcoming covers featured Bane prominently ( and not the Joker or Penguin as he'd been hoping for some time ), Bolland " said I'd go right away.

Charest began drawing at as a child, and cites Mike Mignola, Adam Hughes and Brian Bolland among his artistic influences, as well as many artists from the early 20th century.

Already familiar with Nick Landau ( acting editor ), when another artist dropped out, Bolland was called directly to complete a Judge Dredd story in Prog 41 ( 03 Dec 77 ) and soon was established as a regular artist on the series.

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.

* A Java version of Copycat by Scott Bolland, complete with source code

Bolland was among the very first British comics creators ' discovered ' by the American comics industry, spearheading the so-called " British Invasion " in 1979 / 80.

Bolland ( Ravesignal III, The 4th Sign, Camargue ), Sun Electric ( O ' Locco, Kitchen ), The Source Experience / Robert Leiner ( Visions Of The Past, Different Journeys ), Model 500 / Juan Atkins ( Deep Space, The Flow ), Silent Phase ( The Theory Of Silent Phase ), System 7 ( Power Of Seven ), Dave Angel ( Classics ) and Ken Ishii ( Extra, Jelly Tones ).

In late 1994 Bolland left R & S to sign a five album recording contract with Internal / Polygram Records.

* 2002 The Silence / C. J. Bolland.

* 2002 The Silence / C. J. Bolland.

In 1977, Bolland was approached by Syd Jordan to ghost some episodes of Jordan's newspaper strip Jeff Hawke.

") 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.

A collection of some of the country's greatest air personalities entertained Seattle listeners like Larry Lujack, Scotty Brink, Norm Gregory, Burl Barer, Pat O ' Day, Eric Chase, Bob Shannon, " World Famous " Tom Murphy, Bobby Simon, Jerry Kaye, " Emperor " Lee Smith, Lan Roberts, Robert O. Smith, Charlie Brown, Bwana Johnny, Matt Riedy, Marion Seymour, Sky Walker, Tracy Mitchell, Bob Brooks and sports commentator Chuck Bolland plus Bolland's much younger brother Mark " Jeffries " Bolland.

* An updated remix of " Temptation " by CJ Bolland appears on some versions of the 1995 remix compilation The Rest of New Order.

Learning to draw comics, however, was " more a self-taught thing ," with Bolland eventually writing a 15, 000 word dissertation in 1973 on Neal Adams-an " artist teachers had never heard of.

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.

He returned to Dredd the following year for the next long story, " The Judge Child ", with a different, more considered style, and rotated with Bolland and Ron Smith.

While both Bolland and McMahon chose to draw features of the Judge's uniform such as his gloves, boots, shoulder armour and elbow and knee pads in quite an exaggerated over-size fashion, Smith's depiction of Dredd's pads were more modestly sized and understated in appearance.

Bolland began by outlining a more ambitious plan.

DeMatteis and artist Brian Bolland produced a backup story titled " Falling Down to Heaven " in Madame Xanadu, DC's first attempt at marketing comics specifically to the " direct market " of fans and collectors.

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.

Comics including Turok, Son of Stone and DC's Tomahawk soon followed, and it was this burgeoning comics collection that would help inspire the young Bolland to draw his own comics around the age of ten with ideas such as " Insect League.

" He did however enjoy UK comics, including newspaper strips such as " Syd Jordan's Jeff Hawke David Wright's Carol Day, " and Valiant which featured " Eric Bradbury's Mytek the Mighty and Jesus Blasco's Steel Claw " Despite such a variety of inspirations, Bolland credits his eventual pursuance of art as a hobby and then vocation to a primary school art teacher, who " evidently said all the right things to me.

In 1972, Bolland attended a comic convention at the Waverley Hotel in London, and met " a lot of the people who were key in the comics scene of the time ," including Dez Skinn, Nick Landau, Richard Burton, Angus McKie and-crucially-Dave Gibbons.

" With comics purportedly being new to Nigeria, Bolland recalls this work being created specifically to be " really simple ; six panels on a page and the panels had to be numbered.

Bolland writes that starting with Powerman he " found regular employment drawing comics, one of which, Judge Dredd, in 1977-80, turned out to be quite a hit ..."

Bolland thought McMahon was " terrific, the real ideas man on Dredd ," but noted that McMahon's approach was " very impressionistic ," while the " average comics reader, certainly at the time, does tend to prefer realism.

In 1978, Nick Landau, Mike Lake and Mike Luckman " took their comic distribution business into the highstreet ," opening the first Forbidden Planet comics shop, for which Lake asked Bolland to produce the now-famous " People like us shop at ...