Illustrators - the Modesty Blaise artists

Another special edition of illustrators quarterly magazine has been announced by publishers, the Book Palace.

Due this September, and retailing at £35, is this 160 page long celebration of the artists behind Modesty Blaise. The cover is here...

...more details are available on their website (here - along with a number of very blurry pictures of interior pages) where it says...

Exhaustive examination of all the artists that depicted Modesty Blaise from Jim Holdaway, Enric Romero, John M Burns, Patrick Wright, Neville Colvin, Dick Giordano ... plus numerous paperback cover artists.

Packed with superb examples of all the artists' work, this extraordinary publication includes fascinating articles including never before seen script to sketch comparisons, insights and never before seen visuals of Modesty.

Authors: Diego Cordoba, Norman Boyd
Artists: Jim Holdaway, Enric Romero, John M Burns, Patrick Wright, Neville Colvin, Dick Giordano
Publisher: Book Palace Books, due September 2022
Number of pages: 160
Format: Soft Cover; Full Colour illustrations
Size: 9" x 11" (216mm x 280mm)
ISBN: 9781913548308

There's also going to be a hardback version which is limited to 100 copies, costs £95 and comes with 2 signed prints - one by Romero and one by John M Burns. You can order that via here

The John M Burns print...

The hardback version cover...

The Romero print...

Catawiki auction closes tonight

Here are the highlights from this week's Catawiki auction...all bids must be in by tonight - good luck if you bid!

Here is a Modesty Blaise cover by Romero

Here is an Andy Capp strip by Reg Smythe

Here is a Robot Archie page by Edward Kearon

Here's an Axa strip by Romero

Here's a Martin Asbury page from Look-In

Here's a Modesty Blaise piece by Patrick Wright

Here's a gorgeous page by Ron Embleton 

Another amazing Ron Embleton page - this time from the pages of Once upon a time 

This is by Alfonso Font and is taken from the pages of Look and Learn

This is a Don Lawrence page from 'The house of the five moons' Trigan Empire strip

Latest Catawiki auction highlights

Here are the highlights from this week's Catawiki auction...all bids must be in by Thursady evening

Here is a Modesty Blaise cover by Romero

Here is an Andy Capp strip by Reg Smythe

Here is a Robot Archie page by Edward Kearon

Here's an Axa strip by Romero

Here's a Martin Asbury page from Look-In

Here's a Modesty Blaise piece by Patrick Wright

Here's a gorgeous page by Ron Embleton 

Another amazing Ron Embleton page - this time from the pages of Once upon a time 

This is by Alfonso Font and is taken from the pages of Look and Learn

This is a Don Lawrence page from 'The house of the five moons' Trigan Empire strip

Action Man annual 1985

I'm always interested in a Fleetway annual - this is an interesting one as it's not associated with a contemporary comic...

The artists used are a cut what you might expect from a 'spin-off' annual and some of the contents look like it's been recycled from the Fleetway vaults (having been printed elsewhere before)...

Looks like Graham Coton in the inside front page

...and then we're straight into some Jim Watson art

...and then there's a Joe Colquhoun page...

...Ron Turner then gets 2 pages to illustrate

...This is by Frank Humphris and I'm sure has been printed elsewhere...

Patrick Wright then gets to draw 'a bridge too far'

This is one of two Ian Kennedy strips in the annual

...and then Wilf Hardy draws the end-papers

Plenty of very good artists there and well worth hunting down.

Van Helsing's Terror tales has risen from the grave!

...or come back from the printers to be more precise and what a volume it is! Hardback, 80 pages, its even got a dustwrapper, it's like a proper annual and everything.


And then there's the roster of writers & artists involved...in no particular order...Angus McKie, Brian Lewis, Chris lowder, Donne Avenell, Jim Baikie, Joe Colquhoun, John Bolton, Martin Asbury, Patrick Wright, Ramon Sola, Steve Moore, Steve Parkhouse and Dave Gibbons

20 stories from the cream of British comics talent
70+ pages 
Hardback 
What more could you want? An essential purchase, well done to Dez Skinn for getting this published

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A Brian Lewis page...

A Joe Colquhoun page

 A Ramon 'Hookjaw' Sola page