On Gibbons' advice he joined the Bardon Press Features agency, and got work drawing short strips for DC Thomson. In 1972 he attended a comic convention at the Waverley Hotel in London, and made numerous contacts, most significantly fellow artist Dave Gibbons. At Norwich, and later at the Central School of Art in London, he drew " Little Nympho in Slumberland" for the fanzine Suddenly at 2-o-clock in the Morning, and " The Mixed-Up Kid" for The Galloping Maggot, the Central School of Art's college newspaper.
In 1971 he drew a cover for Dave Harwood's RDH Comics, and got his first paying work, an illustration of Buddy Guy for Time Out magazine. While still a student, Bolland published his first fanzines, and had work published in underground magazines like Friendz, International Times and Oz. He wrote his dissertation on Neal Adams, an artist his teachers had never heard of. He studied graphic design and art history at Norwich School of Art, and in the process taught himself about comics history. In the 60s he embraced the counter-culture and underground comics. Classic Judge Dredd panel, from "Judge Death Lives"īrian Bolland was born on 26 March 1951 in Butterwick, Lincolnshire, the only child of a farmer, and discovered comics at the age of ten, quickly developing a preference for American artists like Carmine Infantino and Gil Kane, and British artists like Sydney Jordan, David Wright and Eric Bradbury.
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