Cover Story - The DC Comics Art Of Brian Bolland
                                             (2011 - DC Comics)  

     This artbook is 208 pages.  After the introduction, there are 101 right pages that each present a full-page reproduction of Bolland's cover art.  The left pages include another 33 devoted to a single large cover image, though twice that many are pages with multiple images.  Of those 134 well-presented pieces, only 26 are shown with the comic-cover typography in place, and while some are line-work, or very-finished sketches, most are full-color.  This compilation does tend to group together the covers he did for particular series, creating large sections focused on work created for ANIMAL MAN, WONDER WOMAN, THE INVISIBLES, GOTHAM KNIGHTS, THE FLASH and JACK OF FABLES, but diversity doesn't seem lost because so many of the images seem so varied from the others.  Some of the multiple-image pages are displays of all the covers done for a particular book, say, up to 25 to a page.  The text is all by Bolland himself, mostly specific anecdotes about the pieces displayed on that page or opposite.  This book is grouped with others on a page here showcasing collections of DC Comics art, but because of its focus on a single artist, it merited here its own separate entry.

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  DC Comics art & cover collections

  The Marvel Art Of Mike Deodato

  The Photo-Journal Guide To Comic Books Vol. 1 & Vol. 2

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