A striking, high-contrast illustration built from thick black ink cross-hatching against blocks of flat, almost psychedelic color, orange, purple, teal and pink arranged in bold geometric fields behind a nude female figure bent forward, dark scribbled hair whipping to one side. The technique here is markedly different from Bisley's usual painted realism, closer to a woodcut or a punk-flyer illustration, dense scratchy linework rendering the figure's form almost entirely through hatching and cross-hatching rather than smooth shading. The piece is signed Simon Biz, dated to the early 1990s, and the abstract, fractured color-field background places it closer to experimental gallery illustration than to any specific comic or franchise work. It's a good reminder that alongside his mainstream comics career, drawing Sláine and Judge Dredd for 2000 AD and later redesigning Lobo for DC, Bisley was also producing looser, more experimental personal work throughout the same period, pieces that let him play with technique and abstraction in ways a monthly comic page rarely allowed. The bold, clashing color blocks recall the kind of graphic design sensibility found in punk and alternative music scenes of the era, a world Bisley moved through comfortably given his early design work for band merchandise before comics ever entered the picture. Stripped of any narrative context, a piece like this reads less as a scene from a story and more as a pure exercise in form, contrast and mark-making, technical range on display outside the constraints of a specific commission.
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