Brian Bolland

Brian Bolland ( born March 26, 1951 in Lincolnshire ) is a British cartoonist and author.

Life and work

Bolland started at the age of ten years to be drawing press, influenced by comic books the publishers Dell Comics and DC. As a teenager he attended the art school and placed during this time before the first works for underground magazines such as Friendz, International Times and OZ and Time Out. His characteristic style, which is mainly characterized by its clean lines, his attention to detail and the naturalistic- authentic, photograph -like charisma of his pictures, he coined from at this time.

After Bolland had published several fanzines, he got in 1971 by Time Out Magazine the first paid job for an illustration. On the recommendation of the artist Dave Gibbons, he was recorded in 1972 in the clientele of the Art Agency Bardon Press Features, which gave him first work. 1977 Bardon gave Bolland firm commitment to the publisher IPC at its weekly magazine appearing in 2000 AD he participated henceforth (from # 41). He drew mostly stories about living in a dystopian future police Judge Dredd.

In 1979 Bolland began to work for which he has since been illustrated primarily front pages of comic books and anthologies as well as posters, such as for the series The Flash, Superman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and Batman for the U.S. publisher DC Comics: Gotham Knights. For 2000AD he also recorded in the 1990s, some stories about living in a post- apocalyptic future Adventurer Tank Girl.

Among the series that Bolland has designed include the twelve-part written by Mike W. Barr mini-series Camelot 3000 in 1982, the umweltaktivistische series Animalman, as well as Alan Moore's graphic novel The Killing Joke in 1988. Together with Grant Morrison put Bolland the Independent series The Invisibles before and with Bolland Strips! , a number of self-written comic strips, he tried for the first time as an author.