There’s plenty of European and British comic art on offer in this week’s regular international auction offering
Modesty Blaise
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A quick road up of some comic news items that have caught our eye this week
Eye-catching cover art and more on offer in this week’s Catawiki International Comic Art Auction
Cover art, Modesty Blaise and Robot Archie art head to auction
Keith Watson “Battle of the Planets” art for TV Comic included in this week’s Catawiki International Comic Art Auction
There are some great examples of both European and British comic art in the latest Catawiki International Comic Art Auction, running until Thursday (9th September 2021), including work by Ivan Petrus Adriaenssens, Claire Bretécher, Neville Colvin, Jean Dulieu, Fred Funcken,… Read More ›
Latest Catawiki International Comic Art auction offers a real all sorts of original work
Some great art on offer in this week’s regular comic art sale
Don’t miss out on some marvellous classic X-Men art by Rafael López Espí
Offered classic X-men art may stir some happy memories in longtime Marvel UK fans…
Five faces of Modesty Blaise! Newspaper strip art a highlight lot of this week’s Catawiki International Original Comic Art auction
On offer – art by five great comic artists, one Modesty Blaise!
Catawiki International Comic Art Auction: Moebius, Carol Day, Robot Archie and more
A smashing selection of British comic art and more goes under the virtual hammer this week
“Paddy Payne”, “Modesty Blaise” and Ron Embleton art on offer in latest Catawiki International Comic Art auction
A range of British comic art from the European auction site go under the hammer tomorrow
“Modesty Blaise Companion” gets limited reprint
Coming soon – as demanded by fans
Heritage Auctions offers Star Trek, Modesty Blaise art in upcoming aution
Modesty Blaise art by John M. Burns and Greg Hildebrandt’s stunning original cover art for this month’s debut issue of Star Trek: Year Five #1 comic book series are among the highlights of dozens of SF, adventure and horror masterpiece paintings… Read More ›
Axa and Modesty Blaise artist Romero announces new art book
Modesty Blaise and Axa artist Enric Badia Romero, still very much active, has announced a new book, Legends of Comic Women and Men of Paper, available to pre-order from him direct. It’s the latest in a line of self-published Books… Read More ›
Book Palace announces updated, limited edition Modesty Blaise Companion
British specialist publisher Book Palace is to publish an update to its hugely-successful Modesty Blaise Companion later this year, with additional pages, as a limited edition. The first edition of their Companion published in 2005 sold out very quickly and… Read More ›
Modesty Blaise fan? A Jim Holdaway original is up for sale
Heritage Auctions is offering this lovely “Modesty Blaise” original by the strip’s first artist, Jim Holdaway, in one of its latest auctions. An episode from “The Long Lever”, written by Peter O’Donnell, the art is described as being #194, published… Read More ›
Titan Books completes its “Modesty Blaise” collections with “The Killing Game”
We’ve been remiss in not noting – and celebrating – the completion of Titan Books collections of the Modesty Blaise newspaper strips with the release of The Killing Game last month. Spanning 28 collections in this series, Titan have now… Read More ›
WebFind: a Modesty Blaise statue based on Jim Holdaway’s original look
Following up on our post earlier this week about Modesty Blaise comic strips up for auction this weekend for charity, we came across this limited edition item that fans of the popular adventure strip created by Peter O’ Donnell for… Read More ›
Modesty Blaise strip art under the hammer for charity
East Bristol Auctions will be selling a number of Modesty Blaise strips on Saturday 21st October, to raise funds for a dedicated local charity. Anna Gow, a fund-raiser for St. Peter’s Hospice, Bristol, rcently donated the Hospice a set of… Read More ›
Frank Hampson’s “Modesty Blaise” art sample up For Sale for a cool $5000
In 1962, Beaverbrook Newspapers asked author Peter O’Donnell to suggest a new strip idea. He thought long and hard and came up with Modesty Blaise, an action adventure strip. Kennedy Aitken, who was Beaverbrook’s strip cartoons editor, suggested they should… Read More ›
Comics @ Edinburgh International Book Festival 2017
Tickets go on sale today for events at the largest literary festival in the world, the Edinburgh International Book Festival which this year runs in the Scottish capital from 12 to 28 August. As ever BookFest has a selection of… Read More ›
In Review: Comics Revue Issue 365 – 366
Title: Comics Revue Issue Number: 365 – 366 (October – November 2016) Complete Stories: Flash Gordon, Rick O’Shay, Sir Bagby and Krazy Kat Continued Comics Series: Modesty Blaise, The Phantom (Daily Strip & Sunday Strip), Flash Gordon, Steve Roper, Rick… Read More ›