Simon Bisley

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Simon Bisley (born March 4, 1962) is a British comic book artist who was very popular in the 1990s for his work on ABC Warriors, Lobo and Sláine. His style, reliant on paints and airbrushing as well as inks, was strongly influenced by Frank Frazetta and Bill Sienkiewicz, and took inspiration from rock album covers and graffiti as well as traditional comics art. He spawned many imitators, and for much of the nineties these imitations of his style became the dominant form of artwork in 2000 AD.

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. Following this he took over drawing of Sláine. Bisley also painted the much anticipated cross-over of Judge Dredd and Batman, Judgement on Gotham.

Bisley is currently an occasional contributor to Heavy Metal.

[edit] Bibliography

Comics work includes:

• ABC Warriors: "The Black Hole" (with Pat Mills, in 2000 AD #555-558, 563-568 & 577-581, 1988)

• Sláine (with Pat Mills):
  • "The Horned God Book I" (in 2000 AD #626-635, 1989)
  • "The Horned God Book II" (in 2000 AD #650-656 & 662-664, 1989-90)
  • "The Horned God Book III" (in 2000 AD #688-698, 1990)

• Lobo (pencils by Bisley, DC Comics):
  • The Last Czarnian (with co-writers Keith Giffen and Alan Grant, 96 pages, 1993, ISBN 0930289994)
  • Lobo's Back's Back (with Keith Giffen, 96 pages, ISBN 1563891034)
  • The Authority/Lobo: Holiday Hell (with co-writers Keith Giffen and Alan Grant, Wildstorm, 160 pages, August 2006, ISBN 1-4012-0992-0):
    • "The Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special" (1991)
    • "Jingle Hell" (2004)
    • "Spring Break Massacre" (2005)

• "Once Upon A Time In The West" (with Alan Grant, in Toxic! #1, 1991)

• Heavy Metal Dredd (with John Wagner/Alan Grant, reprinted from Rock Power. collected in Heavy Metal Dredd ISBN 0749315555):
  • "A Mega-City Primer" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #1.14, 1991 and 2000 AD #1068, 1997)
  • "Rock On, Tommy Who?!" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #1.16, 1992)
  • "Chicken Run" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #1.17, 1992)
  • "The Legend of Johnny Biker" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #1.19, 1992)
  • "Ironfist" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #2.61, 1994)
  • "Night Before Christmas" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #2.62, 1994)
  • "The Great Arsoli" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #3.15, 1996)
  • "Bimba" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #3.17, 1996)
• Batman/Judge Dredd: Judgement on Gotham (with John Wagner/Alan Grant, DC/Fleetway, 1991, ISBN 1-56389-022-4)
• Melting Pot (with Kevin Eastman/Eric Talbot, Kitchen Sink Press, 1995, ISBN 0-87816-362-X}
• Motorhead(covers for 1-6. 1995-96. Dark Horse Comics)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Bodycount (with Kevin Eastman, 4-issue mini-series, tpb, Image Comics, 1996, ISBN 1887279369)

• Mutant Chronicles: Golgotha (illustration by Bisley, also did the artwork on four trading cards, Acclaim Comics, 1996)

• Batman: Black & White: "A Black & White World" (with Neil Gaiman, 1996)

• Halo Graphic Novel: "Last Journey of the Infinite Succor" (with Lee Hammock, Marvel/Bungie, 2006, ISBN 0785123725)

He is also well known for his cover work which includes:

• Doom Patrol, doing the majority of the covers during Grant Morrison's run on the series
• Toxin #3
• 6:66 Satan's Child (1999), Danzig's sixth album

[edit] Trivia

The visual design of the Beast in the 2006 Doctor Who episode "The Satan Pit" is based on Bisley's art.

In the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced, Simon Pegg plays a graphic artist named Tim Bisley - a reference to Simon Bisley.

[edit] External links

• 2000 AD Profile
• Heavy Metal profile
• Simon Bisley on marvel.com
• Simon Bisley Artwork Examples on AskART.