John Bolton is a British comics artist known for highly realistic painted artwork in horror, fantasy and supernatural stories. He contributed to The Books of Magic with Neil Gaiman, giving the young Timothy Hunter's encounters with magic a detailed, almost photographic visual texture. Other work includes Batman: Man-Bat, God Save the Queen, The Furies and The Green Woman, as well as adaptations and horror material connected with Hammer films and The Evil Dead. Bolton's pages tend to emphasise faces, bodies, shadow and unsettling physical detail rather than the cleaner linework of mainstream superhero comics. Books under his name fit painted graphic novels, horror comics, dark fantasy and DC/Vertigo collections, particularly for readers interested in illustration-led storytelling and realistic fantasy art. Read more Less