Simon Bisley
Simon Bisley (born 4 March 1962)
is a British comic book artist best known
for his 1990s work on
ABC Warriors, Lobo and Sláine.
His style, reliant on paints, acrylics, inks and multiple-mediums,
is strongly influenced by Frank Frazetta
,Bill Sienkiewicz, Gustav Klimt, Salvador Dalí, Egon Schiele, and Richard Corben.
He also took inspiration from rock album covers and graffiti as well as traditional comics art. In turn he and his work has inspired various forms in media, including the Beast in the 2006 Doctor Who episode "The Satan Pit", and Simon Pegg's character graphic artist Tim Bisley on the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced.
Career
Bisley drew since he was six years old.
He is entirely self-taught,
with only a short one-year stay at an art college.
He started with doing magazine and album covers,
his first work being a T-shirt design for heavy metal magazine
Kerrang!.
Eventually,
even though he had no experience in comics strip drawing at the time,
he was hired by 2000 AD after
they saw his interpretations of their magazine characters. He started with
work on ABC Warriors, 1987, later moving to Sláine, and Judge Dredd.