The Girl Who Inspired Modesty
A wartime encounter, remembered twenty years later, and the making of an independent heroine.
The encounters, working methods and creative choices behind Peter O’Donnell’s adventures. Original essays bring the evidence together, with links to the interviews, criticism and research that informed them.
From Script to Strip
How a writer’s rough layouts became a daily adventure, with room for the artist to tell the story.
The Artists Who Might Have Been
Frank Hampson, Al Williamson and the difference between a tryout, a proposal and a published series.
A Partnership Apart
Modesty and Willie, the appeal of adventure, and why comparison with Bond only takes us so far.