Had this to say about the comic some ten years back: “When I was a boy, Don painted a comic I loved. The Wikipedia page for Don Lawrence, the strip’s most revered artist, suggests that he was an influence on the likes of Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons, and Chris Weston. No one outside the British Commonwealth is likely to have heard of The Trigan Empire. In its prime, it serialized the single most popular feature in the entire magazine- The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire. In its dying days, it hosted Tony Weare’s comic Rookwood of which I remember very little. ![]() The home of cutaway technical drawings of everything from hydroelectric dams to airplanes the repository of one page synopses of the venerable classics of literature, opera, and ballet and the sanctum of illustrated lessons in history and geography. The Discovery Channel before people had even thought of the Discovery Channel.
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