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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In 1982, DC editor Len Wein chose Bolland to be the artist on DC's Camelot 3000 12-issue limited series, with writer Mike W. Barr.

The first artist to illustrate them was Brian Bolland for their first appearance in 2000 AD # 86, but Mike McMahon's version in # 91 was the first to feature the typical skull badge and distinctive shoulder pad with the wearer's name emblazoned on it.

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 ).

As the artist Brian Bolland revealed in an interview with David Bishop: " The picture of Dredd ’ s face – that was a 1940s actor called Rondo Hatton.

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.

" Also in 1971, Time Out-an underground magazine rapidly reinventing itself into " the biggest weekly listings magazine in London "-gave Bolland his " first paid job " producing " a proper illustration of Jazz bassist Buddy Guy.

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 .".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

" 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.

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.

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.