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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Comparisons have been drawn between them and East London band Shut Up and Dance, with both bands evolving in the early 1990s as a rapprochement between the breakbeat-driven African-diasporic musical structures of hip-hop and reggae, and the dark, European reconstruction of the techno sound popularised by the likes of Joey Beltram, CJ Bolland and Mundo Muzique.

" 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.

" Ultimately the weekly deadlines meant that Bolland was unable to produce all episodes of the epic storylines himself, and the art chores on The Cursed Earth were split between Bolland and Mike McMahon.

Created for light relief, Bolland notes that " he great thing about the Judge Dredd strip was it's ability to slide seamlessly between gritty sci fi adventure, nasty gothic horror, spoofery, all the way to daft comedy.

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.

* Jean Bolland publishes the first two volumes of the Acta Sanctorum ( in Antwerp ).

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

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.

" 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.

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 ".

Bolland made two conditions for taking on the project: that he should be free to modify the plan of Rosweyde as he understood it, and that Rosweyde's materials should be set apart for his exclusive use.

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.

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 ).

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.

" From that point on ," writes Bolland, " either he or his successor Steve MacManus called me direct whenever they wanted me to do a Dredd story.

" 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 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 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 " 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 was, he acknowledges, " by far the slowest of the rotating Judge Death artists ," opting to " take as long as I needed and do a half-way decent job " rather than rushing.

For the sequel, a " massive ( for me ) 30 pages ," 2000AD < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s editorial banked one-off stories to give Bolland long enough to draw it all.

" 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.