 By 1986, the artist was so firmly established as a prominent presence in the graphics community that The Washington Post said Holland was "the undisputed star of American Illustration".Writing for Print Magazine, Author Steven Heller wrote, "As Pollock redefined plastic art, Holland has radically changed the perception of illustration".In Holland's ink drawings, which were most prominently featured on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, the artist has credited German Satirist Heinrich Kley and Austrian expressionist Alfred Kubin as having significantly informed his own black and white work.