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

8 little folding wooden table which I still have. It’s scarred with grooves caused while I made a few things using a fret saw. PR: Did you enjoy art school? BB: I loved art school. It’s where I tried everything for the first time. I was 19 to 22 in the late 60s, early 70s. Need I go on? I’m still in touch with many of my art school chums. They all seem to have fond memories of the tutors. They knew them socially. I had very little to do with the tutors and they had very little to do with me. I have lots of examples of my work from the time, too many to include here. Much of it not comics related. Comics was not considered a valid form of anything by any of them. I wrote my dissertation on Neal Adams. No one had heard of him. After I turned it in I was summoned and RIGHT & FACING PAGE: Pages from Brian's on-going illustrated memoir 'Mixed Messages' give an insight into his early life, influences and the impact of the underground comix revolution on the young artist as he refined his skills and soaked up the hedonistic delights of attending art college in the late 1960s and early '70s. BELOW TOP: Pye television, the cumbersome box and modest screen were typical of the TVs that people watched throughout the late 1950s and '60s. BELOW: St. Andrews church in Butterwick, Lincolnshire which Brian attended in 1966. Text continues on page 16