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.

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)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. Won "Best Original Graphic Novel" UK Comic Art Award for Judgment on Gotham (with John Wagner and Alan Grant)

My late husband was a devoted fan of 2000AD and knowing my interest in Irish mythology introduced me to Sláine the Horned God. He also felt that its feminist aspects would also appeal. He was right.With brand new scans and in its oversized format, Sláine: The Horned God Anniversary Edition promises to bring one of comics’ greatest sagas to live in a way never before seen! 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. Slaine is a book of contradictions: it's beautifully crafted, filled with precise artwork of horrors and carnage, and then there are rushed pictures with the character's faces contorted in amusement. It tells an epic tale of conquest and gods and goddesses and there's a horny dwarf that wants to bang the women. It's both a history and a tale already told in destiny, and there are meta-level joke about making the story.

Rebellion is also delighted to announce the Sláine: The Horned God Anniversary Edition Slipcase. Available exclusively through the 2000 AD webshop and also measuring 355mm by 270mm, this boxset will feature the three books of ‘The Horned God’ in separate hardcovers, housed in a stunning slipcase covered with Celtic motifs and the ’S’ from the original Sláine logo that featured in Pat Mills and artist Angie Kincaid’s first story in 1983. Sláine: The Horned God Anniversary Edition hardcovers slipcase 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. I can imagine that if you still offered it people would absolutely still pay you in beer. They’d probably pay you in as much as the equivalent of your pricing if you requested it [laughs]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, 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.Is there any distinction for you when it comes to labeling something as fine art in comics in terms of digital versus traditional mediums? Reapers" (with John Arcudi, in Dark Horse Presents: Aliens, Dark Horse Comics, 1992, collected in Aliens Omnibus #3, 2008, ISBN 1-59307-872-2) Because you’ve written about it. Because it’s getting a reaction one way or another. If you hate it and you’re reacting negative about it, that’s still a reaction. It’s not about liking something or admiring the ability behind it or anything else. I use pretentious in this context because it’s active consciousness. Non-pretentious art is natural. Nature creates the art. If you take something out of nature and put it in an environment for it to be observed and considered, then that’s pretentious, isn’t it? With AI…I mean it’s just funny isn’t it? It’s amazing, sort of. Just a program on a computer. And after I’ve created something it’s no longer mine really anyway. But in the end my style came from Frank Frazetta, Bill Sienkiewicz, Richard Corben, Michelangelo, all these people.