Brian Bolland

Brian Bolland (born 26th March 1951) is a comic artiost best known in Britain for his work on 2000AD strips including Judge Dredd and Walter the Wobot, in particular on classic storylines such as The Cursed Earth, The Day the Law Died, The Judge Child Quest and Block Mania. Bolland created fan favourite characters Judge Death, the Dark Judges and Judge Anderson, and also drew new covers for the Eagle Comics reprint line featuring the 2000AD characters, as well as working on 2000AD reprint volumes from Titan Books. In addition to his 2000AD work, Bolland also drew strips for House of Hammer amongst others, as well as the African superhero title Powerman, which was some of his earliest professional work, predating 2000AD. He has also done a considerable amount of advertising work, and created the whimsical strip The Actress and the Bishop, which eventually appeared in the anthology title A1.

Bolland was one of the first British artists to be recruited by America's DC Comics in the early days of what became known as "the British Invasion", which revolutionised the industry in the 1980s. One of his earliest works for DC was a section of the landmark Justice League of America #200 in 1982, though he is better remembered for his one and only monthly title, the twelve issue limited series Camelot 3000, DC's first ever "maxi-series". He also drew the Batman one-shot The Killing Joke, written by Alan Moore, and a Judge Dredd/Batman team-up, also by Moore. In recent years, he has concentrated mainly on providing cover art, most of it for DC Comics, though he does still occasionally draw interior art.