"Modesty Blaise" by Neville Colvin and John Burns

Having already a few original strips of Modesty Blaise created by author Peter O'Donnell and illustrator Jim Holdaway I decided to get originals from a few other artists who worked on the comic after Jim Holdaway. Of course that doesn't mean Romero is included. I have my limits. Here is an original from the early 1980s story arc titled Balloonatic by Neville Colvin who drew the strip until 1986.

Hmm... morning after. As I promised yesterday here is one more Modesty Blaise artist. This original daily art is from the late 1970s by John Burns. Nice drawing of lips in the second frame.

Tony Weare's "Matt Marriott"

I just got myself another piece of my lost youth an original strip by Tony Weare's “Matt Marriott”. This strip appears in the episode called "Marshal of Ochre Flat". In my country it appears under the title "Veliki brat" in the "Zlatnoj seriji" booklet. 

David Lloyd (V for Vendetta), an admirer of Tony Weare's work, wrote: “Tony was one of just a very few strip artists here and in the US whose creative identities owed nothing to the heritage of stylisation which influenced many other newspaper adventure strip creators—he was primarily an illustrator who just happened to love drawing strips. . . . He also had a superb command of light and shade, which promoted the impression that he was drawing something he could see in front of him, rather than something he'd built up from his imagination." “Matt Marriott” is a British newspaper comic strip that ran in the [London] Evening News from 1955 until 1977. More about comics and his artist here.

Featured in BranD Magazine

My cover illustrations for Varoom Magazine - the illustration report a Dutch Magazine was featured in the international brand design publication from Hong Kong BranD Magazine.

Paolo Garretto

To not think that I'm only interested in collecting original comics I also collect almost anything related to illustration and graphic design.

This is my new acquisition, it's a original 1935 caricature of King Haile Selassie by Paolo Garretto.
Paolo Garretto was in the 30s and 40s known as one of the most influential illustrators. He illustrated some of the most iconic magazine covers such as, Fortune Magazine, Vanity Fair, and etc. However Garretto's reputation soon after that declined, partly because he was tagged a "Fascist Artist". It turns out that not only did he design the uniforms for the Italian Fascist but he was also a part of Mussolini's honor guard.

More about Paolo Garretto in this article by Steven Heller here.

How To Make Comps the Good Old Way.

I just recently acquired these announcement, envelope, and invitation envelope comps, created in circa 1930-1940. The comps are by Harry Brown.

The artwork is amazingly fluid, and appears easily done. It’s pure poetry.
His on the fly comps would stand as final artwork now a days.
This is partly because Harry Brown was a prolific and well known illustrator for many different American magazines, brands, and labels.

Below are also a few of his New Yorker illustration covers.

Head to Toe: The Nude in Graphic Design mentioned in The Wall Street Journal.

In her article for The Wall Street Journal 'What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?' Julie Lasky kindly mentions Steven Heller and mine upcoming book 'Head to Toe: The Nude in Graphic Design.'
The book will be published by Rizzoli and will be available in the spring of 2019.

Carol Day

Carol Day is an original English comic strip by David Wright from 1959.
These comic were always beautifully cross-hatched and richly textured.