EXTRACTS: Brian Bolland (illustrators special issue) © 2019 Book Palace Books (144 PAGES in Full edition)

54 there’s a fellow here who’d like to draw the cover of Green Lantern . Jack kindly, said yes. It was a fan-boy dream for me and I’ll forever thank Joe and Jack. The fax machine was a fairly new thing at the time and before that the idea of working and communicating publisher to artist across an ocean seemed unthinkable. That seemed to me to be the precise beginning of the British Invasion of US comics. Where my story tatters at the edges is in the fact that Gibbons had previously done some pages for Marvel, Paul Neary had worked for Warren and Barry Smith had emigrated over there and was drawing Conan . But after me a kind of flood-gate opened. DC editors started visiting meetings of the SSI (Society of Strip Illustration) to groom British talent to work for that company. PR: Camelot 3000 was your first substantial undertaking for DC— was it an enjoyable experience? Covers to Camelot 3000 , Brian Bolland's first substantial project with DC Comics. Scripted by Mike W. Barr and billed as a limited edition maxi-series with high-quality printing it featured a sci-fi re-contextualisation of the Arthurian legends. It was destined to run for a year but, despite the assistance of inkers, Brian's perfectionism led him to supply pencils that were so detailed no significant saving of time was achieved and the series overshot its allotted schedule. Nevertheless, the comic was a critical success and became a firm favourite with fans around the world, Brian's art embodying the very best of the silver-age of DC Comics, but with his own very contemporary stamp to it. Green Lantern © 1935-2019 DC Comics Green Lantern © 1935-2019 DC Comics