Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD – he is the Law! Poverty is rife, crime is rampant, and only the Judges – empowered to dispense instant justice – can stop total anarchy. Welcome to Mega-City One, a nightmarish metropolis situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Last here are a couple of Bisley cameos from anthology books I’ve collected over the years, sadly I’ve forgotten the actual titles of the books but one was some sort of horror anthology and also featured one-off illustrations by other comic artists of the day.COSTUMES ARE FOR CREEPS! From super-powered aliens to Cursed Earth mutants, Judge Dredd dishes out justice to all in this action-packed collection of stories from some of comic's biggest talents, including John Wagner, Alan Grant, Carlos Ezquerra, Mike Collins, Alan Davis, Simon Bisley, Richard Elson, Simon Spurrier and Eric Powell, amongst many others. Below that is a flyer for a Rock club night I picked up in the late 80’s in London which I’m 99% certain is a Biz doodle. Possibly from the same magazine a couple of years later is a full page painting of Slayer complete with horned devil and Giger-esque creature. I’m pretty sure this is one of the first instances of The Biz drawing Batman, the Joker, Spiderman and Marshall Law, even Judge Dredd too. His love of Heavy Metal music is well known so it was no surprise when I spotted a cover and advert he’d done for the short-lived Kerrang! rival, RAW ( Rock Action Worldwide, not the New York underground Raw publication). After Simon exploded onto the comic scene with his work for 2000ad on ABC Warriors and Slaine it seemed everyone wanted a piece of him and his work inevitably started appearing outside the comic world too. Going through the archive recently for something else I chanced upon these lesser seen early Simon Bisley artworks from the late 80’s.
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