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Trigan Empire cover for Sjors No. 14 (1971) by Bert Bus. Bus is probably best known to British comic fans for creating new “Robot Archie” stories for the Dutch market, also for Sjors

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The cover is a scene from the 13th “Trigan Empire” story, “Voyage to the Moon Bolus”

aka “The Invasion of Bolus”, most recently reprinted in Rebellion’s “The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire” Volume One

Holland's Museum of Comic Art (MoCA), the first Dutch comics museum devoted entirely to all aspects of the Ninth Art, has just opened a fantastic new exhibition devoted entirely to the art of comic covers

Five faces of Modesty Blaise! Newspaper strip art a highlight lot of this week’s Catawiki International Original Comic Art auction

Comic art collectors and Modesty Blaise fans are bidding furiously on a lot offered in this week’s Catawiki International Original Comic Art auction featuring five original pen and ink Modesty Blaise strips, all written by Peter O’Donnell. The lot includes one strip drawn by one of the five Modesty Blaise artists who worked on the world-famous British newspaper strip, first published between…

Robot Archie’s Dutch Adventures as “Der Man van Staal”

Robot Archie – now owned by Rebellion – is an iconic character that must surely be in the running for collection next year, but did you know he was possibly as popular in Holland as he was here, and like Janus Stark, new stories were created for overseas publication?

Robot Archie (initially known as “The Jungle Robot”) originally appeared in the weekly comic Lion‘s launch issue, cover dated 23rd…