Carol Day Books, the place for American fans of the newspaper strip “Carol Day” to buy copies of the fantastic collections published by Slingsby Bros, Ink! currently have a number of original “Modesty Blaise” strips drawn by Neville Colvin for sale, spread across separate lots.
On offer are select episodes from the stories “Moon Man” first published in 1981 – 1982, and “Plato’s Republic“, first published 1984-1985.
In “The Moon Man“, collected by Titan Books in the album The Scarlet Maiden in 2009, a British agent in the Balkans has turned double. To learn the names of the other agents in the area, his new boss has come up with a plan to have Tarrant give the list of names to Modesty Blaise for checking. The bad guys intend to get it from her and to do that they use a sleeper agent, a man who has recently become the special friend of Modesty Blaise and who wants no part of the plan.
“Plato’s Republic” collected by Titan Comics in the album, Sweet Caroline, in 2010, is one of the best Modesty Blaise stories by Peter O’Donnell. Salamander 4 wants Modesty’s old records from The Network to use for their blackmail and murder activities, and they try to force her into giving them up…
Neville Colvin (17th December 1918 – 1st September 1991) was a noted strip New Zealand artist who initially worked as a cartoonist for Evening Post from 1946 until the mid-1950s. He’s is most famous for illustrating “Modesty Blaise” between 1980 and 1986, taking over from Patrick Wright, drawing approximately 1902 strips.
He often signed his cartoons as “Greville”. His credits include “James Bond” and the fondly remembered “Ginger & Co” for Swift (1960-62), and he was employed by a variety of British newspapers – News Chronicle, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express and the Evening Standard. He died in Camden in 1991.
The “Modesty Blaise” strips he worked on are collected by Titan in The Lady Killers, The Scarlet Maiden, Death in Slow Motion, Sweet Caroline and The Double Agent.
Check out the “Modesty Blaise” artworks and more here on the Carol Day Books eBay store.
The Political Cartoon Gallery also has “Modesty Blaise” strips he drew for sale here, and the DigitalNZ Archive has a gallery of his wider work here which includes his many caricatures and one-panel cartoons.
• Lambiek: Neville Colvin Profile
• Digital ArchiveNZ – Neville Colvin Gallery
• Carol Day Official Site: carol-day.com | Slingsby Bros, Ink! – slingsbybros.com
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