JB Interview 2003

‘…it wasn’t until the mid-‘70s, when he saw a slideshow of Marvel Comic covers, that his interest in comics was aroused. “On a big screen they suddenly looked like art,” Bolton recalls. ”Suddenly you could appreciate the colour and composition.” His first commercial commissions were comic book adaptations of House of Hammer movies The Curse of the Werewolf and Dracula: Prince of Darkness, and a Bionic Woman colour strip for a TV magazine. He soon caught the attention of Marvel Comics in the US whose editor offered Bolton a choice of projects. He opted to resurrect the 1930s pulp character King Kull, and has since worked for every major comics publisher.

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