“All of the people who had access came from the closed world of comics – be they publishers, shop owners or fellow artists. “Various British publishers and individuals had been given access to artwork, including mine, for use in other publications,” he continues. It seemed about 115 had already been taken by someone else. Mike Lake went to collect them and returned with about 185. “I made a deal with the Forbidden Planet store in London to do that for me, collect my (probably) 300 pages and they would buy them off me (all except for a few I chose to keep). But – IPC required each artist to draw up a list of his pages and pay for a transparency to be made of each. Something the artists had been asking for for some time. “Eventually, the archive of artwork stored in the vaults became so unmanageable IPC had the revolutionary idea of returning it to the artists. At 2000AD, Kevin O’Neill arranged for a credit box naming the ‘art droid’ to be added to the first page of each story. They paid the artists for their work, but their names wouldn’t be printed on their pages and their artwork would not be returned to them. “Publishers IPC in London had been publishing comics for many years. “Here’s what happened,” Brian himself notes on the Facebook Brian Bolland Appreciation Society(and not for the first time, deservedly anxious to highlight the thefts). List of stolen Brian Bolland 2000AD art, published in 1988 by The Comics Journal Comic Projects: The Really Heavy Greatcoat.Comics Projects: Return to Planet Earth.Starblazer Checklist: Starblazer Abroad.Starblazer Recalled: Forgotten Fantasy Fiction – With Pictures.British Comic Reference | British Comic Characters Profiled | Garth.
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