“Modesty Blaise was something like Wonder Woman meets James Bond—but she was so much more, too.”
I am setting up my studio in my new home, and I look upon the heaps of printed art lying atop waiting to be sorted. I look through and come across the pin-up poster printed from an online source for what it was drawn for - pinning up on my wall! It brings me back so many years when I read the comic strip back in the early 90’s Apartment 3D? Did i get that right? It was based on Modesty Blaise, and the art struck me despite being of such a young age in pre-teens. So who would stop me from reading a comic strip, albeit a minimally clad woman but a striking character, which came in an English daily? So read them. And much later, many many years later, I dug them up from online sources and printed them bond sheets in the inkjet printer, the art; Except for this time, it was inspiration from the art, the stunning lines of Romero’s inks.
Besides Romero’s art on Modesty, I am an absolute fan of Frank Robbins’s art. So I picked up the comic strip collected kindle edition. It doesn’t hurt for once reading it in Kindle, a comic in BNW.
Which comic character or artist that appeared in 90’s comic strips do you admire or inspire you? Write to me in the comments section below. I go back often to my oldest/ first memories of comics from Flash Gorden, Mandrake, and Lee Falks ‘Phantom’.
