Don Lawrence

My alltime favorite artist. His series Storm and Trigan Empire belong to the classics! After quitting school, Donald Southam Lawrence made his comic debut with the superhero 'Marvelman' followed by some other albums. But his fame came from two other series - 'Storm' and 'The Rise and Fall of the Trigian Empire'. The latter series was a comic epic about a self-appointed emperor. The dubious setting of this series resulted in him getting fired when he asked for royalties. ('Trigië' was published in a magazine.) Don Lawrence was between jobs when a Dutch publisher asked him to do a science-fiction series, written by Dutch artist Martin Lodewijk, for the magazine Eppo. This series, entitled 'Storm', now consists of twenty-two albums and has earned him a lot of dedicated fans. Don Lawrence died on 29 December 2003. He received a knighthood by Dutch Queen Beatrix. (source: www.lambiek.net) For more info and artwork visit www.donlawrence.nl