Simon Bisley

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Simon Bisley (born March 4 1962) is a British comic book artist best known for his 1990s work on "ABC Warriors", "Lobo" and "Sláine". His style, reliant on paints and airbrushing as well as inks, was strongly influenced by Frank Frazetta and Bill SienkiewiczFact|date=June 2007, and took inspiration from rock album covers and graffiti as well as traditional comics art.Fact|date=June 2007

Biography

Early life and career

While still a student, Bisley did a painting of a robot holding a baby that he sent to the offices of "2000 AD". The image was seen by Pat Mills and inspired him to relaunch the "ABC Warriors" strip, with Bisley as artist, in 1987. Following this, Bisley took over drawing of "Sláine". Bisley also painted the intercompany crossover Judge Dredd and Batman, "Judgement on Gotham".

As of 2007, Bisley is an occasional contributor to the comics magazine "Heavy Metal" and has most recently done a cover for a new comic book company based in Hong Kong called Fluid Friction " Devashard - www.fluidfriction.com" .

Bibliography

Comics

*"ABC Warriors": "The Black Hole" (with Pat Mills, in "2000 AD" #555-558, 563-568 & 577-581, 1988)
*"Sláine" (with Pat Mills):
** "The Horned God Book I" (in "2000 AD" #626-635, 1989)
** "The Horned God Book II" (in "2000 AD" #650-656 & 662-664, 1989-90)
** "The Horned God Book III" (in "2000 AD" #688-698, 1990)

* "Once Upon A Time In The West" (with Alan Grant, in "Toxic!" #1, 1991)

* "Heavy Metal Dredd" (with John Wagner/Alan Grant, reprinted from "Rock Power". collected in "Heavy Metal Dredd" ISBN 0749315555):
** "A Mega-City Primer" (in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #1.14, 1991 and "2000 AD" #1068, 1997)
** "Rock On, Tommy Who?!" (in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #1.16, 1992)
** "Chicken Run" (in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #1.17, 1992)
** "The Legend of Johnny Biker" (in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #1.19, 1992)
** "Ironfist" (in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #2.61, 1994)
** "Night Before Christmas" (in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #2.62, 1994)
** "The Great Arsoli" (in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #3.15, 1996)
** "Bimba" (in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #3.17, 1996)

* "Bisley's Scrapbook" (Atomeka Press, 1993)

*"Melting Pot" (with Kevin Eastman/Eric Talbot, Kitchen Sink Press, 1995, ISBN 0-87816-362-X)

*"Motorhead" (covers for 1-6. 1995-96. Dark Horse Comics)

*"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Bodycount" (with Kevin Eastman, 4-issue mini-series, tpb, Image Comics, 1996, ISBN 1887279369)

*"Mutant Chronicles: Golgotha" (illustration by Bisley, also did the artwork on four trading cards, Acclaim Comics, 1996)

*"Full Cirkle" (1st Series) (with [http://www.reedcomics.com Simon Reed] , 2003)

*"Halo Graphic Novel": "Last Journey of the Infinite Succor" (with Lee Hammock, Marvel/Bungie, 2006, ISBN 0785123725)

*"Full Cirkle" (2nd Series) (with [http://www.reedcomics.com Simon Reed] , 2007)

*"Thicker Than Blood" (with [http://www.reedcomics.com Simon Reed] & Mike Ploog, 2007)

DC Comics

*"Lobo" (pencils by Bisley):
** "The Last Czarnian" (with co-writers Keith Giffen and Alan Grant, 96 pages, 1993, ISBN 0930289994)
** "Lobo's Back's Back" (with Keith Giffen, 96 pages, ISBN 1563891034)
** "The Authority/Lobo: Holiday Hell" (with co-writers Keith Giffen and Alan Grant, Wildstorm, 160 pages, August 2006, ISBN 1-4012-0992-0):
*** "The Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special" (1991)
*** "Jingle Hell" (2004)
*** "Spring Break Massacre" (2005)

*"Batman/Judge Dredd: Judgement on Gotham" (with John Wagner/Alan Grant, DC/Fleetway, 1991, ISBN 1-56389-022-4)

*"": "A Black & White World" (with Neil Gaiman, 1996)

Covers

* "Doom Patrol"
* "Toxin" #3 & #5
* ""
* ""

Album covers

* "" (1999), by Danzig

Computer game box-cover art

* "Gods" (1991), by The Bitmap Brothers

Trivia

The visual design of the Beast in the 2006 "Doctor Who" episode "The Satan Pit" is based on Bisley's art.Fact|date=June 2007 [ artist biography, "The Tick's 20th Anniversary Special Edition #1", May 2007, New England Comics Press ]

In the Channel 4 sitcom "Spaced", Simon Pegg plays a graphic artist named Tim Bisley, a reference [Spaced Series 2 DVD Homage-o-meter (Alternative subtitles)] to Simon Bisley.

References

* [http://www.2000adonline.com/index.php3?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=SIMONB "2000 AD" Profile]
* [http://www3.capcom.co.jp/consumer/heavymetalgeomatrix/design.html "Heavy Metal" profile]

External links

* [http://simonbisleygallery.com/ Simon Bisley Gallery]
* [http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/Search_Repeat.aspx?searchtype=IMAGES&artist=122296 Simon Bisley Artwork Examples on AskART.]
* [http://batman.manyfacesof.com/index.cfm?faces=home.gallery&gallery=17 Simon Bisley Batman Gallery]
* [http://fluidfriction.com/ Simon Bisley New Cover Art for cool new Hong Kong graphic novel DevaShard]