The Art of Simon Bisley

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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. 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. Yes! Apparently someone can program in my stuff and it’ll come out looking like that. The thing is, what am I going to do? There’s nothing to do. If they want to put my signature on it… well…now this relates to what you’re talking about. Painted art against digital art. Well this is digital art. It’s another form of digital. So if it’s happening, it’s happening. As long as people can separate the two, and they don’t put my name to it…

Duncan, Randy; Smith, Matthew J. (2013). Icons of the American Comic Book: From Captain America to Wonder Woman, Volume 1. p.332. ISBN 9780313399237. Bisley's work influenced the Beast in the 2006 Doctor Who episode " The Satan Pit", [8] and Simon Pegg's character graphic artist Tim Bisley on the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced. [9] Bibliography [ edit ] Comics [ edit ] DC [ edit ]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. Yeah. It’s a good process. Magnificent. But when it comes down to the real deal it can be such a shame. It just seemed on brand during the conversation. I was like, ‘Oh, have you ever heard of Shit The Dog?’

Simon Bisley is a British comic book artist best known for his 1990s work on ABC Warriors, Lobo and Sláine. Oh all of the years. All of them. It’s always a bit like that. They used to bring beers and just put it on the table, and have a drink while I was drawing or painting. It was a great time. Always a good crowd and always a good time. 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!Collis, Clark (8 August 2006). "System of a Down's drummer on his art-covered kit". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 20 November 2015 . Retrieved 12 May 2023. The cast also included Ayoola Smart as Niamh, Gemma Whelan as Medb/Megrim, and Stephen Hogan as chief baddie Lord Weird Slough Fegg. I’ve always been a fan of more traditional mediums, too. But as you said it’s definitely something shifting. It’s nice that so many people have the access to create in a new way, even if it’s not how you or I prefer it. Yeah, yeah. There’s a responsibility to a degree. I think it’s nice when people come up to talk to me and ask for advice. It’s kind of nice, isn’t it? But what it’s like being the old guard now..hm.. I mean there’s rows and rows and rows of people making art here at this show – pretentiously or not. What do you think the distinction is for people who say there’s a divide between what’s considered fine art and what’s considered fine comics art?

Bisley started his career doing magazine and album covers, his first work being a T-shirt design for heavy metal magazine Kerrang! Simon was still in art school when a friend of his passed along an illo to Pat Mills at Fleetway Comics in the UK. The standard blurb goes something like this:

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. Four days in fact. Arrived noon on a Friday, watched BIz pencil out a hellblazer cover in less than an hour, had a few beers, filmed him pencil and ink joker, ha 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.