Simon Bisley

Simon Bisley
Bisley at the 2015 East Coast Comicon in Secaucus, New Jersey
Nationality	British
Area(s)	Penciller, Inker, Colourist
Notable works	ABC Warriors Lobo Sláine
Awards	"Best Artist" Eisner Award (1992)
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Simon Bisley is a British comic book artist best known for his 1990s work on ABC Warriors, Lobo and Sláine.

His style, reliant on paints, acrylics, inks and multiple-mediums, is strongly influenced by Frank Frazetta,Gustav Klimt, Salvador Dalí, and Richard Corben. He also took inspiration from rock album covers and graffiti as well as traditional comics art. In turn he and his work has inspired various forms in media, including the Beast in the 2006 Doctor Who episode "The Satan Pit", and Simon Pegg's character graphic artist Tim Bisley on the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced.

Simon Bisley began drawing when he was six years old. He is self-taught, with only a short one-year stay at an art college.

Bisley started with doing magazine and album covers, his first work being a T-shirt design for heavy metal magazine Kerrang!

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. He started with work on ABC Warriors in 1987, later moving to Sláine and Judge Dredd.

Since 1997, Bisley is a regular contributor of the comics magazine Heavy Metal.

Bisley has done design work for several music videos, including Chippendales' "Room Service".