Bolland also drew the cover for Vertigo's first Doom Patrol issue and for the entire second and third volumes of Morrison's Invisibles ( 1997 – 2000 ) ( and in addition provided artwork for the TPB collections of Morrison's Doom Patrol run, and all volumes of The Invisibles ).

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 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 ).

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.

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.

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 .".

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

" By this point, " although the Express owned the rights to the strip, they were not printing it ," but since it had a strong European following, these new episodes ( Bolland believes ) " got collected in anthologies in French and Spanish ," but not in the UK except briefly in " the fanzine Eureka.

" 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.

Gibbons and Bolland were to draw alternate issues ( Bolland's first issue was Powerman # 2.

Creators discussed as working on future issues of Solo before the series was canceled include: Brian Bolland, John Cassaday, Dave Gibbons, Adam Hughes, Kevin Maguire, Tony Harris, J. G. Jones, Kevin Nowlan, Bill Sienkiewicz, Walt Simonson, Jill Thompson, Brian Stelfreeze, Bruce Timm, John Van Fleet, George Pratt and Matt Wagner.

* August 18 – Jean Bolland, Belgian Jesuit, Founder of the Bollandist ( d. 1665 )

* September 12 – Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer ( b. 1596 )

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.

The first two volumes of the Acta, by Bolland and Henschen, were published in Antwerp in 1643.

Unlike Rosweyde and Bolland, Henschen was allowed to devote himself exclusively to the writing of the Acta.

In 1659, Bolland and Henschen were joined by Daniel van Papenbroeck or Papebrochius ( 1628 – 1714 ), who devoted fifty-five years of his life to the Acta.

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.

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.

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.

Herve is currently constituted of 11 villages: Battice, Bolland, Bruyères, Chaineux, Charneux, Grand-Rechain, Herve, José, Julémont, Manaihant, Xhendelesse.

During 1842, Taylor, together with his Cambridge friends Frederick Ponsonby ( Earl of Bessborough ), Charles G. Taylor and William Bolland, formed the Old Stagers, which is recognised as the oldest amateur drama society still performing.

She was created by writer John Wagner and artist Brian Bolland in 1980.

In 1998, Rob and Ferdi Bolland ( Dutch producers and co-writers of about half of Falco's albums ) released the EP Tribute to Falco under the name The Bolland Project feat.

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.