Axa proposal #1

It has been one year today since Enric Badia Romero passed away, so I thought I would post some artwork related to his favorite character/creation, Axa.

Enric told me that when he was proposing the idea of Axa to the British newspaper, The Sun, he created two strips to show them the character and illustrate that it would be a science fiction/action strip. The two strips showcase Axa with a sword encountering and fighting a mutant spider, and this idea was used in the first Axa story. The strips remained in Enric's personal collection until I was lucky enough to pick them up from him a few years ago.

In 2013, Enric self-published his book History of Axa 1978-2012, which contained images of the two proposal strips presented to The Sun, so I consider them as published strips.