Title: Bolland backslapping: a campaign
Post by: Trout on 28 January, 2003, 11:58:54 PM
Post by: Trout on 28 January, 2003, 11:58:54 PM
Right then. After Tharg's hint this week, this fish is increasingly anxious to see Brian Bolland back drawing for 2K, even if it's just a one-off or a cover.
I know it's been well-publicised that he left to broaden his horizons, but I reckon it's time now for a triumphant return.
Anyone who's seen his work over the last few years, especially the covers for The Invisibles, The Flash and a host of other comics, simply can't deny the great man has gone from strength to strength.
IMO his work is one of the most distinctive, constantly fresh and very striking styles ever to come out of the UK. Just seeing a Bolland cover sends shivers of pleasure down my hideous fins.
So, in the hope that he might see it and our support may help swing things a little, I call upon all boarders in favour to sign up to this petition:
"We, the undersigned, think 2000AD deserves an artist of the quality of Brian Bolland and we plead with him to return to the fold, at least temporarily.
"The staff of Rebellion must do everything in their power, physically, financially and - yes indeed - even sexually to persuade Mr Bolland to give us a return visit!"
Sign up everybody!
- Trout
I know it's been well-publicised that he left to broaden his horizons, but I reckon it's time now for a triumphant return.
Anyone who's seen his work over the last few years, especially the covers for The Invisibles, The Flash and a host of other comics, simply can't deny the great man has gone from strength to strength.
IMO his work is one of the most distinctive, constantly fresh and very striking styles ever to come out of the UK. Just seeing a Bolland cover sends shivers of pleasure down my hideous fins.
So, in the hope that he might see it and our support may help swing things a little, I call upon all boarders in favour to sign up to this petition:
"We, the undersigned, think 2000AD deserves an artist of the quality of Brian Bolland and we plead with him to return to the fold, at least temporarily.
"The staff of Rebellion must do everything in their power, physically, financially and - yes indeed - even sexually to persuade Mr Bolland to give us a return visit!"
Sign up everybody!
- Trout
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: ukdane on 29 January, 2003, 12:28:58 AM
Post by: ukdane on 29 January, 2003, 12:28:58 AM
Sign me up Trouty!
I haven't had this weeks Prog yet, but was just wondering yesterday, what Mr. Bolland was currently up to.
Would you rather see him workingon 2000ad, or the Meg????
I wouldn't mind seeing him draw a mini-epic in the Meg.
Please Thargie
I haven't had this weeks Prog yet, but was just wondering yesterday, what Mr. Bolland was currently up to.
Would you rather see him workingon 2000ad, or the Meg????
I wouldn't mind seeing him draw a mini-epic in the Meg.
Please Thargie
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: Capt.Zeep on 29 January, 2003, 12:35:00 AM
Post by: Capt.Zeep on 29 January, 2003, 12:35:00 AM
Me too! Tharg hinted it would maybe be more than a cover I thought...
Brian Bolland for the prog!
Brian Bolland for the prog!
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: Queen Firey-Bou on 29 January, 2003, 12:43:26 AM
Post by: Queen Firey-Bou on 29 January, 2003, 12:43:26 AM
me me ! signed Mrs Coggins, cal hab.
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: esoteric ed on 29 January, 2003, 01:14:01 AM
Post by: esoteric ed on 29 January, 2003, 01:14:01 AM
Without question, Return of the King!
Ed
Ed
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: karne on 29 January, 2003, 01:14:23 AM
Post by: karne on 29 January, 2003, 01:14:23 AM
Count me in. For those of you who don't know what the oldies are on about check dis owt...
Link: Bollands Lair
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: Last of the V8's on 29 January, 2003, 01:41:45 AM
Post by: Last of the V8's on 29 January, 2003, 01:41:45 AM
Oh yes. Come back Mr. Bolland and give us some legendry thrill power.
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: paulvonscott on 29 January, 2003, 01:55:56 AM
Post by: paulvonscott on 29 January, 2003, 01:55:56 AM
Hmmm... I always though that covers, yeah they are nice, but a strip- Ooohhh... Then again I wouldn't kick a Bolland Dredd cover off me wall.
Pretty controversial this but I always reckoned the Bolland image was what made dredd an icon in the same league as dan dare.
Pretty controversial this but I always reckoned the Bolland image was what made dredd an icon in the same league as dan dare.
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: Trout on 29 January, 2003, 01:56:25 AM
Post by: Trout on 29 January, 2003, 01:56:25 AM
By the way, sincere apologies for the minor spoiler about Tharg's hint.
It was just one sentence on the letters page, so I hope it's not been too naughty of me.
I'd be surprised if Bolland would commit to a lengthy strip of any description, although I'd love to see it.
My ideal situation would be something of the length of the original Judge Death tale, perhaps just a few episodes long.
I'd also like it to be 2000AD itself - call me sentimental - although I'd be very happy to see his work in the Meg.
Bring back Bolland!
More support, please...
- Trout
It was just one sentence on the letters page, so I hope it's not been too naughty of me.
I'd be surprised if Bolland would commit to a lengthy strip of any description, although I'd love to see it.
My ideal situation would be something of the length of the original Judge Death tale, perhaps just a few episodes long.
I'd also like it to be 2000AD itself - call me sentimental - although I'd be very happy to see his work in the Meg.
Bring back Bolland!
More support, please...
- Trout
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: James on 29 January, 2003, 01:57:54 AM
Post by: James on 29 January, 2003, 01:57:54 AM
Man, he's so choice...
Count me in
James
Count me in
James
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: Trout on 29 January, 2003, 02:03:19 AM
Post by: Trout on 29 January, 2003, 02:03:19 AM
Oooh, that website.
Huntress, Zatanna, oooh, how lovely.
Fact: he is a true master.
- Trout
Huntress, Zatanna, oooh, how lovely.
Fact: he is a true master.
- Trout
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: Yoda on 29 January, 2003, 02:28:56 AM
Post by: Yoda on 29 January, 2003, 02:28:56 AM
Being new to 2000AD but a fan of Bolland for years I have to admit I didn't even know about the AD connection. He gets my vote. His Flash was excellent.
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: petemaskreplica on 29 January, 2003, 02:36:13 AM
Post by: petemaskreplica on 29 January, 2003, 02:36:13 AM
This mask raises a replica fin to that.
And given what the man himself has said in the past about what would bring him back to Dredd, can we also demand a return for the Fatties?
"Bolland does fatties" is a scenario that *demands* to be fulfilled!
And given what the man himself has said in the past about what would bring him back to Dredd, can we also demand a return for the Fatties?
"Bolland does fatties" is a scenario that *demands* to be fulfilled!
Title: Dredd Statue Offer
Post by: CeeFIT on 29 January, 2003, 02:47:58 AM
Post by: CeeFIT on 29 January, 2003, 02:47:58 AM
In last months relaunch issue of the megazine(201), there was a promo leaflet featuring the Harrop & Buckley statues-buy two ,get the third one free.
Ive lost the bloody leaflet!!!!Can anyone tell me how to place an order?Website ,phone numder, etc.??
Any help greatly appreciated.
Ive lost the bloody leaflet!!!!Can anyone tell me how to place an order?Website ,phone numder, etc.??
Any help greatly appreciated.
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: Wils on 29 January, 2003, 02:52:07 AM
Post by: Wils on 29 January, 2003, 02:52:07 AM
A huge fat vote from me too. It was seeing Brian Bolland's stuff that started me drawing in the first place. Although I have to admit that I fell into the 'Bolland Trap' for many years (which I've now managed to shake) pretty much the same as how many artists in the early 90s fell into the 'Bisley Trap'.
I've been sticking my head into the Bolland website for ages, and it's probably the best retrospective site, IMHO, of a classic comic artist that I've come across. His tutorials are a brilliant addition, and the self humbling of his abilities, in my mind, makes him even more worthy of our esteem.
I've been sticking my head into the Bolland website for ages, and it's probably the best retrospective site, IMHO, of a classic comic artist that I've come across. His tutorials are a brilliant addition, and the self humbling of his abilities, in my mind, makes him even more worthy of our esteem.
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: Art on 29 January, 2003, 03:13:57 AM
Post by: Art on 29 January, 2003, 03:13:57 AM
Thats a lovely petite chin.
Sign me up for the Bolland prog petition!
Sign me up for the Bolland prog petition!
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: critter on 29 January, 2003, 03:28:44 AM
Post by: critter on 29 January, 2003, 03:28:44 AM
"We, the undersigned, think 2000AD deserves an artist of the quality of Brian Bolland and we plead with him to return to the fold, at least temporarily."
Brian's covers on the Eagle/Quality Comics reprints of Dredd got me hooked. Man thats been 17yrs.
Critter
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: Mangamax on 29 January, 2003, 03:43:41 AM
Post by: Mangamax on 29 January, 2003, 03:43:41 AM
Yes Brian - take me back to being a 16 year old again
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: Smiley on 29 January, 2003, 04:26:28 AM
Post by: Smiley on 29 January, 2003, 04:26:28 AM
You know you want it.
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: judda fett on 29 January, 2003, 05:12:11 AM
Post by: judda fett on 29 January, 2003, 05:12:11 AM
Ooohh, yes please.
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: esoteric ed on 29 January, 2003, 06:28:07 AM
Post by: esoteric ed on 29 January, 2003, 06:28:07 AM
Pretty please!
Ed
Ed
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: HiEx on 29 January, 2003, 07:33:05 AM
Post by: HiEx on 29 January, 2003, 07:33:05 AM
Yup, count me, I'd love to see Bolland do Dredd again.
Not to sure about a Bolland mega epic though. Nice as the idea sounds, he's not exactly the fastest art droid on the block, and we'd probably all be senile and drooling in our wheelchairs by the time he finished it.
A 4-6 episode story sounds just about right.
HiEx
Not to sure about a Bolland mega epic though. Nice as the idea sounds, he's not exactly the fastest art droid on the block, and we'd probably all be senile and drooling in our wheelchairs by the time he finished it.
A 4-6 episode story sounds just about right.
HiEx
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: Devons Daddy on 29 January, 2003, 02:49:49 PM
Post by: Devons Daddy on 29 January, 2003, 02:49:49 PM
DREDD BY BOLLAND
oh yes never fails to get me excited. his take on dredd now, how the years have aged him.
this is a must have.
sign me up.
oh yes never fails to get me excited. his take on dredd now, how the years have aged him.
this is a must have.
sign me up.
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: Trout on 29 January, 2003, 04:21:44 PM
Post by: Trout on 29 January, 2003, 04:21:44 PM
And... BUMP!
More signatures, please, folks.
- Trout
More signatures, please, folks.
- Trout
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: W. R. Logan on 29 January, 2003, 05:09:06 PM
Post by: W. R. Logan on 29 January, 2003, 05:09:06 PM
If you want to see what Brian Has done for 2000 then go to his profile.
So many great Dredd covers Prog 131 & 182 especially, to hard to choose, so gone for a non Dredd cover for the pic.
La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.
So many great Dredd covers Prog 131 & 182 especially, to hard to choose, so gone for a non Dredd cover for the pic.
La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.
Link: Brian Bolland Profile
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: Oddboy on 29 January, 2003, 05:11:49 PM
Post by: Oddboy on 29 January, 2003, 05:11:49 PM
Bolland Dredd YES!!
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: Jared Katooie on 29 January, 2003, 08:34:14 PM
Post by: Jared Katooie on 29 January, 2003, 08:34:14 PM
I agree Bolland is a fine artist and a lovely man, bring back Bolland!
JK.
JK.
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: IndigoPrime on 30 January, 2003, 08:28:35 PM
Post by: IndigoPrime on 30 January, 2003, 08:28:35 PM
I would have thought at most he might do a one-part Dredd, but I can't see him doing more than that for 2000 AD. More likely that he'll do a cover or two.
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: Bolt-01 on 30 January, 2003, 08:35:58 PM
Post by: Bolt-01 on 30 January, 2003, 08:35:58 PM
Bring
Back
Bolland!
Please
Rotts
Back
Bolland!
Please
Rotts
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: The Monarch on 30 January, 2003, 11:20:25 PM
Post by: The Monarch on 30 January, 2003, 11:20:25 PM
i have a big poster of his cver of joker last laugh 1 on my wall i also have a first edition of the killing joke as well
sign me up for the return of bolland
sign me up for the return of bolland
Title: Re: Bolland backslapping: a campai...
Post by: Trout on 31 January, 2003, 10:44:52 PM
Post by: Trout on 31 January, 2003, 10:44:52 PM
Bumping this up in case anyone hasn't seen it yet.
- Trout
- Trout