#The rise and fall of the trigan empire series

For these children, The Trigan Empire becameВ an education in what comic books could look like,В never once realizing that LawrenceвЂ™s work on the series was in fact a high point in British comic art, one which has been rarely equaled. There were other artists who followed in LawrenceвЂ™s wake once he broke with IPC (the magazine distributors) over pay but he was the good Trigan artist just as Barks was the good duck artist. However, there is no doubting that Mike Butterworth and Don LawrenceвЂ™s The Trigan Empire was the king of the heap-the solitary reason why kids forced their parents to buy Look and Learn week in week out. I distinctly remember that the stories from various ballets (like Giselle and Petrushka) were presented in the form of comics for example. There were other comics in Look and Learn of course. It was the story of something a lot like an SF Roman Empire on a distant planet, and was gorgeous.вЂќ It was called The Trigan EmpireВ - two comics pages a week, in the otherwise comicsless and dryasdust childrenвЂ™s magazine вЂњLook And LearnвЂќ, which even schools who banned comics allowed. вЂњWhen I was a boy, Don painted a comic I loved. Neil Gaiman had this to say about the comic some ten years back: The Wikipedia page for Don Lawrence, the stripвЂ™s most revered artist, suggests that he was an influence on the likes of Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons, and Chris Weston. No one outside the British Commonwealth is likely to have heard of The Trigan Empire. In its prime, it serialized the single most popular feature in the entire magazine- The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire.

In its dying days, it hosted Tony WeareвЂ™s comic Rookwood of which I remember very little.

The home of cutaway technical drawings of everything from hydroelectric dams to airplanes the repository of one page synopses of the venerable classics of literature, opera, and ballet and the sanctum of illustrated lessons in history and geography.В The Discovery Channel before people had even thought of the Discovery Channel.

The rise and fall of the trigan empire