Judge Dredd: The Complete Brian Bolland

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The joy of the Artist's Edition format is the chance to luxuriate in artwork at the highest possible resolution, shown at the actual size it was drawn. The case’s tabs are flimsy and mine are ripping after opening and closing the case a few times, but most people won’t keep their book in the case. Alan had already departed from DC and has, for his own reasons, disassociated himself from the Killing Joke. During my five years in three art schools I never learnt a single thing about comics from any of my tutors. This vast urban nightmare has sprung up from the post-apocalyptic ashes of North America's east coast.

Many people are unable to see poor work when a lot of time is spent by the artist embellishing it with extraneous detail.Paul: Your status and legacy amongst 2000AD artists is quite obvious, but could I ask how you first came to be published by Tharg? The series was graced with considerable media hype, and Bolland found himself invited to San Diego Comic-Con and other conventions. Understandably, many owners didn’t want to destroy these expensive frames so I missed out on some key pages and beautiful covers, but I simply had to be philosophical about it and gratefully appreciated the pages I had. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. This book will include pages from the Judge Dredd epics; The Cursed Earth, The Day the Law Died, The Judge Child Quest, and Bolland’s masterpiece Judge Death Lives.

Perhaps the most popular 2000 AD artist of all time, Brian Bolland’s clean-line style and meticulous attention to detail ensure that his artwork on strips including* Dan Dare, Future Shocks, Judge Dredd *and Walter the Wobot looks as fresh today as it did when first published. In the case of The Invisibles, however, although Morrison officially had final approval on cover art, Bolland described him as generous to the work Bolland came up with. Interested particularly in drawing the costume, which he feels "has to be one of the sexiest in comics," he soon found the character removed from her normal costume in the storyline.Not only was this work "[t]he best way to learn the simple rules of comic book storytelling," but "better still, it was going someplace where nobody I knew could see it. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.

Bolland contributed artwork to such Judge Dredd story-arcs as " Luna Period", " The Cursed Earth", " The Day the Law Died", " The Judge Child Quest" and " Block Mania".Speaking circa 2000, Bolland said that since The Killing Joke he has only drawn comics that he also wrote. Are there any of those covers you would single out for being unusually eye catching and as you say quirky? 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. In addition to his early forays into full interior strip art, and his later focus on covers, Bolland has also produced a number of short – often single pages – strips, numerous pin-ups and a pair of ongoing irregular humour strips.

In many cases these collectors had picked up their art in the '80s or '90s, never shown them in public or online, and their collections were largely unknown. As a quick note the beautifully realised portrait of Brian I have used here was created by Brian’s wife Rachel Birkett who I believe occasionally brought him a hot beverage whilst we talked online. By contrast, Brian’s artwork was scattered to the four corners of the globe—and not always legally—so the task of finding it was far more demanding, let alone the logistics of arranging scans. Learning to draw comics, however, was an art he self-taught, with Bolland eventually writing a 15,000-word dissertation in 1973 on Neal Adams – an "artist [his teachers] had never heard of.

Thankfully, once I’d contacted them, most collectors were more than happy to help, but some of the biggest collectors proved hard to reach and harder to convince for reasons that never seemed entirely clear. At first the giant was portrayed as a grumpy caveman, but in 1935 legendary ad man Leo Burnett revised the face of the brand, adding the leafy suit and putting in the word “Jolly” in front of his name.