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His unique style is quite memorable: "His paintings remain world-renowned, but his woodcuts and engravings...are where he excelled as an artist with an individual vision." Doré's Wikipedia entry refers to his "immensely successful" collection of 241 illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours, which notes Doré's artistic reasons for undertaking the Bible project as outlined by his biographer, Joanna Richardson:

"It offered him an almost endless series of intensely dramatic events. His visions of the looming tower of Babel, the plague of darkness in Egypt, the death of Samson, Isaiah's vision of the destruction of Babylon; these vast, forbidding scenes, heavy with doom, remind one of the visions of John Martin. They also reveal many elements by now familiar in Doré's work: the mountain scenes, the lurid skies, the complicated battles, the almost unremitting brutalism. Doré's illustrations of the Old Testament remind us, above all, of the God of Wrath: of massacres and murders, decapitations and avenging angels. There is, too, a period element: the angels are Victorian angels, full of sentiment; the women are, again, keepsake women, the children are Victorian children: sentimental or wise beyond their years."

So, I'm sure he'll be a regular contributor to this series.