Mike, I know my questions tend to be backward-looking, but at least there are a few new scans to look at this time…
I’ve uploaded scans of some Don Lawrence colour art from two annuals. Both the stories are credited to you in the Welleman/Van Bavel book Don Lawrence Collected.
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As always, the smaller screen image can be clicked on again to get a more full-screen, legible image.
(A search of the MWM site on “Don Lawrence� will turn up several previous discussions of this phase of your work and there is no need to go over old ground.)
I was led back to this area by two things; re-reading The Skrayling Tree, and some recent mentions by you of the beautiful gravure pages produced for English comics in the 50s and 60s.
Two points to raise anew:
Firstly, all sources including you appear to agree that the 8-page strip Ghost of the Tideless Sea in Lion Annual 1965 (it would have been written and drawn in 1964 at the latest) is a true Moorcock-Lawrence collaboration.
The second story, The Sea Raiders, a “non-fiction� piece about the Vikings, is less certain. I have uploaded the first and last pages only. The mention of “Skraelings� on the last page is not necessarily a clue to authorship, of course!
I wonder if the pages bring back any memories of authoring the piece?
If not, I might perhaps leave the Tideless Sea pages up (and could add the other 6) and remove the Sea Raiders (?)
Parenthetically, it is notable that Lawrence’s colour style is not fully formed in the Karl strip, and much more mature a year or so later in The Sea Raiders, which resembles his Trigan Empire work much more. Also, the Karl strip is printed on non-coated stock, while The Sea Raiders is on coated or glossy paper which looks (and scans) so much better.
I’ve uploaded scans of some Don Lawrence colour art from two annuals. Both the stories are credited to you in the Welleman/Van Bavel book Don Lawrence Collected.
[link expired]
[link expired]
As always, the smaller screen image can be clicked on again to get a more full-screen, legible image.
(A search of the MWM site on “Don Lawrence� will turn up several previous discussions of this phase of your work and there is no need to go over old ground.)
I was led back to this area by two things; re-reading The Skrayling Tree, and some recent mentions by you of the beautiful gravure pages produced for English comics in the 50s and 60s.
Two points to raise anew:
Firstly, all sources including you appear to agree that the 8-page strip Ghost of the Tideless Sea in Lion Annual 1965 (it would have been written and drawn in 1964 at the latest) is a true Moorcock-Lawrence collaboration.
The second story, The Sea Raiders, a “non-fiction� piece about the Vikings, is less certain. I have uploaded the first and last pages only. The mention of “Skraelings� on the last page is not necessarily a clue to authorship, of course!
I wonder if the pages bring back any memories of authoring the piece?
If not, I might perhaps leave the Tideless Sea pages up (and could add the other 6) and remove the Sea Raiders (?)
Parenthetically, it is notable that Lawrence’s colour style is not fully formed in the Karl strip, and much more mature a year or so later in The Sea Raiders, which resembles his Trigan Empire work much more. Also, the Karl strip is printed on non-coated stock, while The Sea Raiders is on coated or glossy paper which looks (and scans) so much better.
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