After leaving The Trigan Empire he worked with a Dutch publisher to create Storm, a post-apocalypse sci-fi series, which he would draw through to his retirement in 1999. At last we now have a beautiful and unabridged republication of the original strip as it appeared in 'Ranger' and subsequently 'Look and Learn'. This similarity even extended to capital city of the Trigan Empire being built on five hills, in a very similar fashion to the. The Trigan Empire is a strip that always deserved reprinting but until now various attempts to collect it in book form had not come to fruition.
Chief among these was the Trigan Empire, apparently modelled on the Roman Empire.
The artwork was originally by Don Lawrence, and was way better than anything else available at the time indeed, youd have to look to modern day artists as Alex Ross or Serpieri to see it bettered, yet Lawrence was paid a pittance.
During this period he also worked on Fireball XL5 and The Adventures of Tarzan comic strips for TV Century 21. A number of the societies on Elekton to my mind seemed to be based on various ancient cultures that had existed in Earth’s history. The Trigan Empire was published in installments in a number of British and European comics during the 1960s and 70s.
In 1965 he teamed with Mike Butterworth to create The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire for Ranger magazine, and continued to paint the comic through its transition into Look and Learn through to 1976. When Sun was absorbed into Lion he moved on to illustrating Olac the Gladiator, Karl the Viking and Maroc the Mighty. Biography: Don Lawrence was born in 1928, and worked for Mick Anglo on the Marvelman comic produced for Amalgamated Press, and then Billy the Kid in the comic Sun. Another boy's comic book Ranger (196566) which included the science fiction story 'The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire' (later simply titled 'The Trigan.