About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 194. Chapters: Brian Bolland, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Neal Adams, John Byrne (comics), Frank Miller (comics), Steve Ditko, Geoff Johns, Norman Hetherington, Brian Michael Bendis, Carl Barks, Arthur Adams (comics), Dave Gibbons, Al Williamson, Guillermo Mordillo, Rob Liefeld, Willy Vandersteen, George Perez, Jean Giraud, Jim Steranko, Grant Morrison, Michael Netzer, Herge, Comics art and writing of Denis Gifford, Mark Millar, John Buscema, George Herriman, Jean-Claude Mezieres, Alex Raymond, Will Eisner, Charles M. Schulz, Roy Thomas, Gene Colan, Mike Carey (writer), Ed Brubaker, Dennis O'Neil, Don Rosa, Wally Wood, Mick Anglo, Ron Turner (illustrator), Osamu Tezuka, Joe Simon, Dave Sim, Steve Geppi, Kyle Baker, Carmine Infantino, John Wagner, Steve Gerber. Excerpt: Brian Bolland (born 1951) is a British comics artist, known for his meticulous, detailed linework and eye-catching compositions. Best known in the UK as one of the definitive Judge Dredd artists for British comics anthology 2000 AD, he spearheaded the 'British Invasion' of the American comics industry, and in 1982 produced the artwork on Camelot 3000 (with author Mike W. Barr), which was DC's first 12-issue comicbook maxiseries created for the direct market. His rare forays into interior art also include Batman: The Killing Joke, with UK-based writer Alan Moore, regularly hailed as one of the finest realised Batman stories, and a self-penned Batman: Black and White story. Bolland remains in high demand a cover artist, producing the vast majority of his work for DC Comics. Brian Bolland was born on 26 March 1951 in Butterwick, Lincolnshire to parents Albert "A.J." John, a fenland farmer, and Lillie Bolland. He spent his "first 18 years" living "in a small village near Boston in the fens of Lincolnshire, England," but has "no memory of comics" much before the age of ten. 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." He recalls that "uperheroes crept into my life by stealth," as he actively sought out covers featuring "any big creature that looked vaguely dinosaur-like, trampling puny humans." This adolescent criteria led from Dinosaurus! and Turok via House of Mystery to "Batman and Robin were being harassed by big weird things, as were Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman ." Soon, family outings to Skegness became an excuse
