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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.
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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.
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 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 ..."
" Dredd stories started as traditional UK comic stories, i. e. " six page one-offs ... Pat Mills and John Wagner seem to spurn the American comic idea of continuing stories or, worse, the idea of a 2000AD continuity between characters ," Bolland seeing this as a " strength ... hav one great new idea each week.
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.
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 ).
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.
The original editor, Len Wein left the company, and was replaced by Dennis O ' Neil, a " very hands-off sort of guy ," with whom Bolland only recalls having " one conversation " about the book.
Comic book artist Brian Bolland said that watching The Man Who Laughs was one of his inspirations for drawing the graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke ( 1988 ).
His first productions were aired in the early 1980s on Belgium's ' Liaisons Dangereuses ' radio show, and Bolland was one of the first record producers to be signed to the fledgling Belgian techno record label R & S.
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 .".
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" As the Dredd stories rose in popularity, they " were moved so they started on the middle pages " with a colour double-page spread, which Bolland " always struggled with " finding it " very difficult ... to fill that space most effectively.
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.
Bolland was among the very first British comics creators ' discovered ' by the American comics industry, spearheading the so-called " British Invasion " in 1979 / 80.
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The first branch opened on 24 November 2011 at the Champs Elysées in a ceremony attended by company CEO Marc Bolland, model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and British Ambassador to France, Sir Peter Westmacott.
Brian Bolland ( born 1951 ) is a British comics artist, known for his meticulous, detailed linework and eye-catching compositions.
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 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.
C. J. Bolland ( born Christian Jay Bolland, 18 June 1971, Stockton-on-Tees, England ) is a British electronic music producer and remixer.
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Both Moore and Bolland are well-known for their meticulous and time-consuming work-both creators ' then-recently-finished 12-issue maxiseries titles had seen delays-and Bolland made it clear that he " wanted to do the best possible job ," even though it wasn't perhaps " quite what I'd hoped to draw.
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On his death, Bolland continued his work in Antwerp.
Underestimating the magnitude of the undertaking, Bolland initially thought he could finish the work on his own, but after a few years he had to admit that the undertaking was beyond his individual strength.
In 2010 he was accused of plagiarism by Brian Bolland for copying his work uncredited and selling it.
After his death in 1629, the Jesuit scholar Jean Bolland (' Bollandus ', 1596 – 1665 ) continued the work, which was gradually finished over the centuries by the Bollandists, who continue to edit and publish the Acta Sanctorum.
Bolland remains in high demand a cover artist, producing the vast majority of his work for DC Comics.
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 seen.
" 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 therefore states that he " aped Mike's genius ... and then reinterpreted in a style which actually borrowed a lot from the work of the American artists ," retaining McMahon's " granite-jawed " look but bringing a level of realism and fine detail to the character, which Mark Salisbury says " finally cemented the iconic image.
Bolland produced a considerable amount of advertising work, initially because his agent " Barry Coker kept putting advertising jobs my way ," including a number of ads for " Palitoy's Star Wars toys.
Bolland recalls that his big break came when Joe Staton attended the Summer 1979 Comicon, and, needing somewhere to work ( on Green Lantern ) while in the UK, arranged to stay with the Bollands.
" With these ideas kicking around in his head, and when " it became clear that 3000 had sold reasonably well ," DC editor Dick Giordano then asked Bolland what project he wanted to work on next.
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.
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.
Bolland has contributed covers — in many cases to complete runs / arcs — to some of the more famous landmark comics of recent years, with his photo-realistic work leaving an indelible impression on the titles for which he works, as the primary external reference image.
Bolland recalls that, in the wake of The Killing Joke, he " was offered a lot of work ," but didn't feel ready to make a long commitment.
When Titan Books first started reprinting 2000AD stories in the early 80s, the Judge Dredd stories it focused were those created by Brian Bolland and Mike McMahon, artists who have always ranked at the top of fans ' lists of favourite illustrators, awarding the pair volumes of their own work.
Darick Robertson cites Paul Smith, George Pérez, José Luis García-López, Neal Adams, Joe Kubert and Bernie Wrightson as early formative influences on his craft, and states it was Brian Bolland ’ s work on Camelot 3000 that defined for him what a comic artist could aspire to.
Bolland is also a prolific remixer with a long résumé, including work with Orbital, Depeche Mode, Moby, The Prodigy and Tori Amos.
In 1635 Godfrey Henschen was assigned to start work on the February saints, while Bolland gave himself to the printing of the volumes for January.
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Unlike Rosweyde and Bolland, Henschen was allowed to devote himself exclusively to the writing of the Acta.
In November 2009, it was announced that Marc Bolland, formerly of Morrisons, would take over as chief executive from Executive Chairman Stuart Rose in early 2010 ; Rose remained in the role of non-executive Chairman until he was replaced by Robert Swannell in January 2011.
On January 1, 1977, the municipality of Herve was merged with Battice, Bolland, Chaineux, Charneux, Grand-Rechain, Julémont and Xhendelesse under the name of " City of Herve " (" Ville de Herve " in French ).
She was created by writer John Wagner and artist Brian Bolland in 1980.
In 1986, the album Emotional was released, produced by Rob and Ferdi Bolland ( Bolland & Bolland ).
According to Sebastian's 5th-century Acta Sanctorum, still attributed to Ambrose by the 17th-century hagiographer Jean Bolland, and the briefer account in Legenda Aurea, he was a man of Gallia Narbonensis who was taught in Milan and appointed as a captain of the Praetorian Guard under Diocletian and Maximian, who were unaware that he was a Christian.
A Paul Bolland goal in the away first leg was enough to see Town through.
Brian Bolland was born on 26 March 1951 in Butterwick, Lincolnshire to parents Albert " A. J.
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.
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.
After finishing his college course, Bolland was hit with " the stark reality of unemployment " and on the advice of Gibbons joined art agency Bardon Press Features.
Gibbons and Bolland were to draw alternate issues ( Bolland's first issue was Powerman # 2.
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.
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