Eventually, even though he had no experience in comics strip drawing at the time, he was hired by the magazine 2000 AD after they saw his interpretations of their magazine characters. According to the Comic Book Database, "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". [2] He started with work on ABC Warriors in 1987, later moving to Sláine and Judge Dredd. [3] It's a mixed bag in many ways, both good and bad. Sometimes the sudden shift in tone are hilarious and work excellently for the story, and sometimes they are just that, abrupt jokes that make you cringe. At times you can almost feel the grandeur of the legend being told and at times you've no idea what is happening and why, where it's all leading to and what happened before. Bisley has done design work for several music videos, including Chippendales' "Room Service". [ citation needed] Yeah, yeah. There’s a responsibility to a degree. I think it’s nice when people come up to talk to me and ask for advice. It’s kind of nice, isn’t it? But what it’s like being the old guard now..hm..

I was about to say, IP probably makes that really difficult. Like working with pre-established characters and histories and all that pressure must add a layer of conscious expectation. They put flags on the balls, but Jesus, dogs have balls. I mean, come on! Listen, doesn’t it seem absurd to you that you would hide the balls? Dogs have balls in real life! We do the same thing– we hide nipples! We hide nipples in comics under the T-shirt of a woman – or even a man! It seems odd. Kao što i Toppi-ja vredi kupiti pre svega zbog crteža, tako ne žalim ni što sam Slaine-a kupila. Moram priznati da je ovo jedno od najboljih Komikovih izdanja koje posedujem.Duncan, Randy; Smith, Matthew J. (2013). Icons of the American Comic Book: From Captain America to Wonder Woman, Volume 1. p.332. ISBN 9780313399237. As so the climactic battle begins, the land is convulsed and Sláine would have to lead his people not only to victory but to new lands which, through legends and myths, would come to be known today as Ireland. Timed to coincide with the 35th anniversary of its first publication in 2000 AD in 1989, this new edition of Pat Mills and Simon Bisley’s groundbreaking and best-selling collection will feature brand new scans – meaning readers will be able to see its fully-painted art in unprecedented new detail. Well, I don’t know. It depends where the land lies legally. I mean, if they can make a living out of it, that’s kind of wrong. They’ve taken 35 years of my hard work to come up with something and they just press a button and just create these images. I think there’s something illegal there, without a doubt, because they’re using my process in a roundabout way. Even without me. I think if someone’s making money out of it, I’ve got a big problem with that. But I think if they are making… press a button, you can make something look like mine or similar to that style, people do that physically anyway, paint it… so they’re kind of doing it. This is just the shit version.

AD ( ABC Warriors): ##555-558, 563–568, 577-581 (1988); ( Sláine): #626-635, 650–656, 662–664, 688-698 (1989–90); ( Judge Dredd) #1068 (1997)I’ve always been a fan of more traditional mediums, too. But as you said it’s definitely something shifting. It’s nice that so many people have the access to create in a new way, even if it’s not how you or I prefer it. Nominated for "Best Cover Artist" Eisner Award, for Grendel: War Child, Terminator, and Enemy Within As I finish reading this collection for perhaps the 10th time, I find that Slaine is a very easy 5 stars for me. Well, what I’ve noticed is there’s a lot more new faces. Things have moved forward. So you get a lot of young faces now. I’ve become like the old guard. I’m one of the old guys, do you know what I mean? Well..it’s all art. Clearly it’s another form of art; it’s another tool. You’ve got to live with the fact that this is the way it’s going, and it’s the way things have progressed. I don’t regard digital as fine art as much as I would physical art with a traditional medium. I like digital, but when it comes to an original piece – the first of something – then I say, “Well, why am I staring at a print?” Sorry, mate. I’m not interested in print as the original. I want to see what else happened in it first.

Won "Best Original Graphic Novel" UK Comic Art Award for Judgment on Gotham (with John Wagner and Alan Grant) Okay. Good. Brilliant. Anyway, traction these days…I think my prices are more than they used to be. So you just tend to get the guys who specialize.laughs] Well, I mean, pretentiousness is a consciousness of art as it’s being presented and regarded. Talking with Grant, we were talking about the purest form of art – so to do art and to do real art is to do something that would be so utterly unconscious, unpretentious and unconscious. Why paint anything at all? Why even bother? If you’re doing fine art and you want to paint something for yourself, why bother at all? Because when you paint you’re considering a lot of things. How are people going to react to it? Am I going to be a great artist or am I going to be a bad artist? Shall I do this or not do it? If somebody has doubts about it, you’re being pretentious because you’re not really actually doing what you really want to do. Sláine the Horned God is an extremely popular comic series that premiered in the U.K. comic magazine 2000AD in 1983. This dramatised production provides an excellent introduction to this classic barbarian fantasy series. King Shit! [laughs] No, it’s not necessarily weird. It’s not weird. Just sort of realizing that you’re a few more steps nearer the grave. Your life’s got to a point, to a degree.