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

140 RIGHT: 'Corny's Fetish' FACING & FOLLOWING PAGES: Mr Mamoulian, Bolland’s brilliant and self-excoriating strip, which tears away the sensational layouts and in your face artistry of his superhero work. In the process, he reveals his talents as a writer as well as affording the reader an glimpse into his hang- ups and obsessions—beautiful women being not the least of his concerns. I turned in a respectable rough, I thought. He said it wasn’t quite right but he couldn’t quite put his finger on what he wanted. Three or four roughs later he still wasn’t satisfied and I realised I couldn’t be arsed and said “NO!” He seemed surprised. PR: What would you like to work on for the future? BB: I have a lengthy pictorial memoir I’m working on. [pages from Brian's memoir 'Mixed Messages' appear throughout this feature—it makes for a compelling reading experience and different to any other autobiography I have ever encountered] A great rambling thing using photograph, scans and the occasional drawings about my ancestry, my life, the 60s, the music and the books and the art I was coming across. And musings about the strangeness of the passing of time. I Corny's Fetish © 1986-2019 Dark Horse Comics LLC