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

6 on a bit! Then a foundation art course at Leicester Polytechnic where I was encouraged to deconstruct myself. Let go of all my adolescent preconceptions and become a pretentious art school arsehole. I failed to achieve that so I was given a place at Norwich School of Art to study graphic design. I got a 2-2, if I remember correctly! I tried to get in at the Royal College of Art in London but they wouldn’t have me. Fortunately there was a tutor at the Central School of Art, Peter Kneebone, who was somewhat into comics, especially National Lampoon and the French satire mag Hara Kiri (with its copious nudity). So he encouraged the entrants’ committee to accept me. Was that thorough enough for you? Mostly, though, I trained at home on a ABOVE TOP LEFT: One of a series of studies for 'Puabi', a Egyptian lyre plucking maiden that Brian devised. ABOVE: More material from 'The Actress and the Bishop', when it comes to depctions of seductive women and decrepit old men there is no other artist that can quite match the unerring eye of Brian Bolland. FACING PAGE: Cover art to the recently published 'The Cursed Earth Uncensored', an adventure which first appeared in the UK comic 2000AD .