Artist: Enric Badia Romero (biography)
Medium: Ink on Acid-free Board
Size: 19" x 6" (495mm x 164mm)
Date: 1971
Signature: Signed by the artist with box signature in final panel

This is the Signed unique original Ink drawing by Enric Badia Romero.

Modesty's Aboriginal friend, Jacko, is fretting over her survival.

An original Modesty Blaise Strip drawn by Enric Badia Romero, the second ever Modesty Blaise artist, and the artist who drew more strips than any other.

This strip is number 2585, relatively early in the Modesty saga which ran until number 10183. The strip is from the Modesty Blaise adventure The Stone Age Caper, the 5th story Romero worked on.

The final panel shows a particularly cinematic viewpoint and great perspective with the huge lizard as main focus. Romero also uses some very interesting shading techniques to put across the idea of heat haze and unbearable temperature in this strip.

Interestingly, the strip is signed inside a box drawn by the artist in the final panel. This is a style Jim Holdaway would often use, but is rarely seen in works by Romero.

There is a cut out of the published newspaper strip on the reverse of the artwork, and a publisher rubber stamp showing this was published on -9 Oct 1971. It is fascinating to compare the original artwork to it's published counter piece.

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