Modesty Blaise Enrique Badía Romero

a romero original 1 of later modesty blaise storylines

romero began association writer peter o donnell s modesty blaise strip in 1970 when called in finish storyline war-lords of phoenix due artist jim holdaway s unexpected death. initially, romero intentionally imitated holdaway s style in order make changeover less noticeable, established own take on character of modesty blaise, portraying in more exotic , voluptuous style holdaway did. romero drew modesty blaise strip until 1978, , while doing episodes of andré chéret s rahan franco-belgian comics magazine pif gadget 1976, , beginning in 1978, romero collaborated donne avenell create science-fiction series axa english tabloid newspaper sun.

in 1986 romero returned modesty blaise , remained strip until o donnell retired in 2001. in 2002, romero commissioned draw graphic novel adaptation of modesty blaise short story dark angels ; work published exclusively in scandinavia later reprinted in special issue of comics revue in united states. romero s 1970s work on modesty blaise strip continually reprinted in ongoing series of compilation volumes published uk company titan books since 2005, while comics revue has reprinted of post-1986 work on strip.

in 2000s , on, romero has worked on durham red, , other projects magazines 2000 ad , judge dredd megazine, enric romero, , in 2011 drew italian market short stories of djustine, horror-western character created enrico teodorani.