I also met the Salter family, each member with their own favourites: Mum and Dad had read Marvel since the British weeklies of the 1970s and were now discovering Walking Dead, their daughter was into manga via anime and their son into True Blood. I met two slightly stunned teenage brothers down from Peterborough, Marvel and Millar fans via the movies and both in seventh heaven. None had traveled to Bristol or Birmingham because they were outside London. It’s always a pleasure bumping into pals and pros again, but chatting to punters, I discovered many were pretty new to comics and Kapow! was their first ever Comic Convention. And I’ve been a comics addict ever since.Īs proof of this multi-media crossover appeal, Kapow!, the new London convention held on April 9th and 10th 2011, mistress-minded by Lucy Unwin and her sister Sarah and championed shamelessly by Mark Millar, drew over 5,100 visitors for its first weekend with a canny mix of genre TV-, film- and games-related celebrities and attractions. And those creaky Belvision animated Hergé‘s Adventures of Tintin, specifically the moon adventures, spurred me to borrow the books from the library. “Nana-nana-nana-nana Batman” with Adam West got me to buy my first American comic book in Romford market, a World’s Finest 80-Page Giant. Watching Doctor Who and Thunderbirds led me to the weekly from the future, TV21, with Ron Turner’s Daleks and Frank Bellamy’s Thunderbirds in glorious painted colour. But it was television that really grabbed me and made me discover the shows’ comics incarnations.
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True, my parents bought me Look & Learn to educate me but I just read the fantastic swords-and-spaceships serial Trigan Empire drawn by Don Lawrence, and I’d enjoyed a few Beanos. What first got you into comics? What hooked me as a Essex nipper in the Sixties was television.
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Other artists who worked on the strip include Ron Embleton, Miguel Quesada, Philip Corke, Oliver Frey and Gerry Wood.Īlthough the strip has seen only limited English-language release it remains one of the most popular comic series in Holland and Germany, with over two million albums sold.Kapow! Comic Con: Multi-Media Crossover Appeal Created by Mike Butterworth, who died in 1986, and artist Don Lawrence, who passed away in 2004, the series’ mix of political intrigue and Lawrence’s lush painted artwork won a host of fans worldwide, and proved to be highly influential, inspiring a generation of comic book creators with its depth and beauty.ĭon, who started out as a comics creator in the Gower Street Studios in London, first working on Marvelman before moving on to Karl the Viking for Lion. Originally published in the anthology title Ranger from the first issue in September 1965, and Look and Learn from June 1966 until April 1982, the series told the story of an alien empire on the planet Elekton that was heavily influenced by history, particularly Roman. This new edition perfectly showcases the remarkable talent of Lawrence, who is rightfully regarded as one of the finest artists in British comics history. The third thrilling omnibus of The Rise and Fall of The Trigan Empire – the lost sci-fi classic from the 1960s – is out now!Īvailable now in paperback, this third volume of the groundbreaking and highly-influential series features lush painted comic art by comics master Don Lawrence for a series that confirmed him as one of the greatest comic book artists of all time! ORDER PAPERBACK > ORDER FROM BOOKSHOP.ORG > ORDER FROM HIVE.CO.UK > ORDER FROM AMAZON UK > ORDER IN NORTH AMERICA >Ĭo-created by Mike Butterworth and Don Lawrence, The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire has been named as a major influence by the likes of writer Neil Gaiman ( Sandman), artist Dave Gibbons ( Watchmen) and Brian Bolland ( Judge Dredd), amongst many others.