Is that a guess Dale? If so, keep guessing....

A recap, plus more clues:
+ Fairly recent (will be the most 'modern' bit of art I have apart from the recent McCarthy Dredd stuff): 2003
+ Not by an artist I have anything by.
+ Features just one character, and it's a minor classic, to me at least.
+ Closest thing I'll come to a Bolland piece, maybe.
+ 'Smile'
+ A cover, but not 2000AD, and not a regular one.
+
A variant cover... (Not sure how many of those there have been, and I don't even have a copy of the published version.)+
Popped up on Pete's blog not long ago.+
Seeing it might ring a bell if you're familiar with the works of Alan Moore....
Is that enough to go on?
