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Ian Baker
Official: www.ianbakercartoons.co.uk
Ian Baker's work is published in over 50 leading magazines and newspapers all over the world including Punch, Private Eye, Nickelodeon (USA), Cracked (USA), Penthouse (USA), Bravo Sport (Germany), The Picture (Australia), Daily Star, New Statesman and the Spectator.
Paul Baker
Official: www.cartoonists.co.uk/paulbaker
Caricatures for all occasions black and white, colour or live 4 minute "on the spot" drawings at parties and events
David Baillie
Official: www.davidbaillie.net
Comics creator David Baille has created his own smallzine prss imprint, dbComics. Scribe, a simply told but effective story of a would-be supervillain with an unexpected secret power, was circulated at the 2004 Comics Festival, alongside a small anthology, Award Fascination.
David also has a regular column in Judge Dredd Megazine. Each and every
month he discusses life as an indie comics superstar and offer advice
on making comics, self-publishing and the UK small-press scene.
The Bailey Brothaz
Official: www.geocities.com/baileybrothaz
Two enthusiastic artists/writers with plenty
of ideas. They've kindly sent me samples of their work over the years, taken
on board some of my comments but basically carved their own distinctive style
drawing on innate talent.
They both display a determination and passion to
their work that deserves looking reward and I'm sure they'd welcome any positive
or constructive feedback.
Note: Some of their work such as the powerful, no-holds
barred BloodznCripz features violent gang-based storylines
though, just in case you're a tad squeamish, but superby
told.
Jim Balent
Official: www.jimbalentstudios.com
Many will know Jim Balent from his work on DC's Catwoman
for 77 plus issues
(1993-1999).Jim also did the first mini-series of Purgatori for Chaos Comics,
Dark Claw, Lobo, Batman to name a few.Jim began the creator-owned BroadSword
Comics
in 1999.
Adrian Bamforth
Official: www.adrianbamforth.com
Comics art, design, illustration and game design.
Credits include Judge Dredd for 2000AD.
Stephen Baskervile
Official:
baskerville.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk
From The Beano to Batman and Transformers, Baz
has drawn them all... Artist for Panini, Marvel, 2000AD, concept artist
and animator, Stephen's a brilliant creator with a huge list of impressive
credits to his name. Check out his as yet unsold superhero strip Just Force
on the site.
Leo Baxendale
Official: www.reaper.co.uk
Creator of The Bash Street
Kids, Minnie the Minx, Little Plum, The Three Bears, and
The Banana Bunch and many other memorable British cartoon
characters.
Steve Beckett
Official: www.sam119.co.uk
Artist on Sam 119
Gary Scott Beatty
Official: www.garyscottbeatty.com
Gary Scott Beatty is a publication production
expert, typographer, writer, illustrator and comic book colourist,
whose "Wedding of Popeye and Olive" was discussed on Good
Morning America, in the New
York Times, Time magazine
and Newsweek.
In 1999 he coloured most of Aaron Warner's Adventures
of Aaron Sunday
strips and the "Sparky and Tim" collection
cover. He has coloured covers for Arrow Comics, Modern Comics and Omega
7.
Frank Bellamy
Frank Bellamy, one of my favourite artists as
a child for his Thunderbirds work in TV21,
was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, in 1917. He was called up for
war service in 1939, spending much of his time painting aircraft recognition
pictures.
After the war Bellamy was employed by various comics, then by Swift [a
junior version of Eagle],
before moving onto Eagle itself,
drawing The Happy Warrior,
the story of British Prime Minister and war leader Winston Churchill,
the brilliant Fraser of Africa and Heros the Spartan,
as well as revamping Dan
Dare.
He worked for TV21,
the Radio Times and the Daily Mirror (on Garth) after leaving Eagle,
sadly dying of a heart attack in July 1976.
Links
• FrankBellamy.co.uk
Link: www.frankbellamy.co.uk
Related Blog: http://frankbellamy.blogspot.com
Norman
Boyd has put together a website to celebrate Bellamy's life and work. This
contains a list of all his artwork in various fields, together with biographical
details. He's spent a lot of time researching this, looking through old
comics, magazines and newspapers in the British Library and talking to
people who knew Bellamy and worked with him on TV21 and other publications.
During its painstaking construction over many, many months,
Norman Boyd said
of this incredible resource: "It's by no means extensive
but Paul Holder and myself are trying our best to write a book
on FB - a long term project as Paul's a perfectionist
and I'm a nit-picking Librarian! But our labour of love
will extend to adding the site ASAP, but our full time
(paying) jobs do get in the way!"
The results are simply magic for a fan of Bellamy like myself. Congratulations
to all involved.
• Frank Bellamy the Artist
Link: http://members.aol.com/bellamyart/bellamy.htm
• Comic art collector Terry
Doyle has posted some stunning Belllamy art from his collection on
ComicArtFans: www.comicartfans.com
• King Solomon's Mines Art: Go
Collector Terry Doyle tells me only three episodes of KSM were produced
for the original Eagle before the serial was aborted. Apparently recall,
the strip was supposed to be a follow-up to Bellamy's stunning Fraser of
Africa, but an Editorial decision was made for a change of pace - and Montgomery
of Alamein replaced it.
Massimo Belardinelli
Yahoo Fan Group: groups.yahoo.com/group/themassimobellardinelligroup
Italian artist Massimo was one of the early contributors - his credits include the revived Dan Dare -- to 2000AD and other IPC titles such as Tornado. He died in March 2007. 2000AD co-creator Pat Mills pays tribute to him on downthetubes here
Luis Berjemo
Lambiek Entry: www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bermejo_luis.htm
Luis drew mainly
war stories and made many contributions to the Thriller Picture Library,
and took over the Eagle character Heros
the Spartan from his creator Frank
Bellamy.
Nick Bertozzi
Official: nickbertozzi.com
Nick Bertozzi grew up in and around Providence, Rhode Island, has lived
in Philadelphia and Madrid and currently lives in Queens, NY with his
wife and daughters. He received a Xeric Grant and multiple Harvey Awards
and Ignatz Awards for his smart and human cartooning. He is the author
of The
Salon, a graphic novel about Picasso, the discovery of Cubism,
and magical absinthe from St. Martin's Press. He collaborated with
Jason Lutes on the graphic novel Houdini:
The Handcuff King,
the first of Hyperion/CCS's cartoon-biographies. He's hard at work on
a cartoon biography of Lenny Bruce for
Houghton-Mifflin, written by Harvey Pekar as well as drawing Glen (the
Colbert Report) Eichler's Stuffed! for
First/Second. For the past several years he has been teaching cartooning
at NYC's School of Visual Arts and taught at RISD in 2008.
Rupert Besley
Official: www.besleycartoons.com
Rupert
has worked for 20 years as a freelance cartoonist and illustrator, producing cartoons for a variety of outlets, including Postcards / Greetings Cards (Dixon's, Hinde's, Gordon Fraser); Newspapers / magazines (Punch, Private Eye, The Oldie); Book Illustrations (OUP, MGP, Penguin, Canongate) and Guides / Reports (Audit Commission, local councils).
Jesus Blasco
Lambiek Entry: lambiek.net/artists/b/blasco_jesus.htm
The artist who brought chilling life to Valiant's The
Steel Claw.
British comics expert Lew Stringer points out that the images on the
page are not not his most representative style.
Blasco died on 21 October,
1995. If you're of a morbid nature, you
might also want to check out this entry about Blasco on FindAGrave.
No, really.
Graham Bleathman
Official: www.grahambleathman.co.uk
Graham Bleathman is one of
the country's foremost illustrators of Gerry Anderson's
television series including Stingray,
Captain Scarlet,
Joe 90
and, of course, Thunderbirds.
He is particularly well known for his 'cross section'
illustrations of the spacecraft, vehicles and buildings
from those shows and his illustrations have appeared in
a number of books, magazines and comics since the early
1990s.
Published works include cutaways for RAF Magazine, Thunderbirds
Classic Comics Strips and Supermarionation
Cross Sections.
Sue Blundell
Link: www.cartoonists.co.uk/sueblundell
Brian Bolland
Official: www.brianbolland.com
Still associated with 2000AD's
Judge Dredd although he hasn't drawn the character for
years, Bolland is a comics legend whose work includes
Batman: The Killing Joke. In addition to this
comic-book work, his art has also appeared on countless
magazines, record covers, books and posters. Currently
Brian is drawing the covers for DC's Batman : Gotham
Knights and recently finished a run on Flash.
John Bolton
Official: www.johnbolton.com
Bob Bond
Official: www.elbobbo.org.uk
Bob illustrates books and magazines,
and for many years has drawn picture-strips for various
comics... mainly, but not all, on the subject of football.
Bob Borden
Official: The
World of Bob Borden
Requires
Shockwave. Creator of Mysterymen and Flaming
Carrot, America's First
Surrealist Superhero!
The Mysterymen is a team (actually more like a "gang") of superheroes,
who first appeared in 1987, in a two part story in Flaming Carrot Comics #16 & #17.
They are second-string, mill-town, blue-collar superheroes, costumed adventurers
who can't get into the big-time superhero teams because they have the mediocre
powers, unsightly or ridiculous costumes, behavioural problems, scandalous reputations,
or severe character flaws. The strip has since become a cult movie, Mystery
Men.
• Buy Mystery Men on Region
1 DVD from Amazon.com: Go
• Buy Mystery Men on Region 2 DVD from Amazon.co.uk: Go
Duncan Bourne
Official: www.duncanbourne.co.uk
As regular strip cartoonist for 'On the Edge' , 'Mini Magazine', and 'Adventure Travel', Duncan has produced widely aclaimed cartoons and illustration for many years.
Dan Brereton
Official: www.nocturnals.com
Dan Brereton is one of a bare
handful of painters left in the industry who still do
comics full time. Just barely out of art school, Dan burst
onto the scene in 1989 with the award winning Black
Terror miniseries (Eclipse
Comics) and hasn't looked back since. In the last 12 years,
he's produced an amazingly prolific body of work, has
been nominated many times for several different industry
and fan awards.
Neil Bradley
Link: www.cartoonists.co.uk/neilbradley
Link: Info welcome
Doug Braithwaite brought Justice to the printed page at DC, and previously took on Earth X over at Marvel. His skilled draughtsmanship work has been featured at many companies in America and the UK.
Rosie Brooks
Link: www.rosiebrooks.co.uk
Clients include: Loose Slate Publishing Company
(Hammond Gower Publications) Ragged Bear Books, Kingston Museum, Royal
Parks, Tommy's the Baby Charity, Discovery Channel Press Office,
Comic Relief, Big Draw at the V&A
Chris Brunner
Official: pmayhem.com/chrisbrunner
Stunning artist whose cover credits include Batman and more.
Bill Bryan
Official: www.comicartistsdirect.com/bryan.html
Bill is the artist on the hit Oz series at Caliber and Arrow Comics: Dark Oz, Land of Oz.
Shaun Bryan
Official: tatooine.fortunecity.com/bear/170
Online portfolio
Adey Bryant
Link: www.cartoonists.co.uk/adeybryant
Adey had his
first cartoon was published in The Sun
almost twenty years ago. Since then his
work has appeared in titles such as The
Times Metro Magazine, The Oldie, Squib,
The Star, The Sport, Punch, Readers Digest
and many more.
Mike Bryson
Link: www.cartoonists.co.uk/mikebryson
Mike specialises in lighting up the driest
of literature with my unique range of humorous illustration, caricature
and gags.
Jason
Brashill
Official: www.caned99.freeserve.co.uk
Jason's web page -- included on a site shared
with Steve Sampson and Jim
Murray -- includes his covers for Judge
Dredd the Megazine and 2000AD,
plus other great stuff.
Tom
Buchanan
Web Link: www.tombuchanan.co.uk
• James Burley
Official site: www.jamesburleyillustrator.com
Bristl-based cartoonist and illustrator sent me some
very funny Star Wars cartoons (not featured
on his site, hard luck!). He divides his time between writing "hugely
funny" comedy for radio, TV, and film. He has worked sporadically for
local web designers and the mighty Aardman Animations. He has also been
responsible for many sought after T-shirt designs.
He's also involved in the wonderful Spewmy tales web site (www.spewmytales.com)
which is a great place for kids. They hope to include a downloadable cut out
theatre at some point. It's fab!
