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. Yeah, yeah, basically. Someone can happily come along to say ‘Bisley’s work is blatantly shit, this is the worst pretentious work I’ve ever seen from Bisley ever blah blah blah’, I go, “Alright” and keep painting.

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. 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". He started with work on ABC Warriors in 1987, later moving to Sláine and Judge Dredd. 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.

Simon Bisley

Priča na početku ovog prvog dela je dosta konfuzna, pa čak i zamorna. Milion nekih bogova, kraljeva, plemena... ne može čovek da pohvata sve odjednom. Imala sam osećaj da mi treba pomoćni papir da pribeležim gde je ko i šta je ko. Međutim, ispostavilo se da polako sve dođe na svoje kako radnja odmiče. Problem je verovatno i što nisam čitala ništa od priča koje ovoj prethode. Nominated for "Best Graphic Album: New/First US Publication" Eisner Award, for Judgement on Gotham (with Alan Grant and John Wagner) ER. "International Miscellanea: 1993 UK Comic Art Awards," The Comics Journal #161 (August 1993), p. 40.

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. Bisley started his career doing magazine and album covers, his first work being a T-shirt design for heavy metal magazine Kerrang! [1] Yeah! Yeah. I mean what have I been doing already if not that without the computer? What does any artist do with their influences? Well that’s interesting to think about now. So you encapsulate all these different influences. It’s just done in new ways. Huh. I dunno. It does make it interesting though, eh? 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)That’s kind of the argument that a lot of people are making right now, is that they’re taking all of these wonderful iconic artists, and just plug in all of that information, saying what they want to a computer, and it comes out in that style, or it’ll come out as a somewhat distorted version of your work. In the early 2000s Bisley was commissioned to create artwork for the drum kit used by System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan, an avid comic book collector and vendor. Dolmayan commissioned Bisley to illustrate the Hulk and Thing on one drum, while the art for other drums in the kit, which depicted other characters and scenes, were produced by Kevin Eastman, Tim Vigil, and Arthur Adams. [5] Influences [ edit ] They’ll have to. Someone came up to me a few days ago and she says, “Simon?” I said, “What?” She said, “Have you got a lawyer?” I said, “Why?” She explained to me what’s going on with all of this. And I think we’ll all be affected by it at some point, because once they use my name, they’ll want to use people like… Again, Bill [Sienkiewicz]. I cite Bill a lot, I know, because Bill represents to me that kind of fine art, unpretentious style. As I finish reading this collection for perhaps the 10th time, I find that Slaine is a very easy 5 stars for me.