Don Lawrence

A number of partly completed and unpublished comic strips appeared in the series Don Lawrence Collection, published in the Netherlands. The final Storm serial (completed by Lawrence's former assistant Liam Sharp) appeared in the magazine Pandarve published by the Don Lawrence Fanclub in 1999–2001. One of his last illustrations was the cover of volume 6 of the Storm -the collection- from 2002.^{[citation needed]}

In the mid-1980s he was looking for an assistant and accepted then 17-years old Liam Sharp as his apprentice, but after realizing he did not want to step back as much as he had thought he would, he helped Sharp develop his own style.^[5]

Later life

In 1995, he lost sight of his right eye, caused by an infection after an unsuccessful cataract operation. With his depth perception gone, he could no longer see when the tip of his pen and brush touched the paper's surface, forcing him to teach himself an alternative drawing technique.^[6]

He went through a new cataract operation in 1999, this time without medical complications. But his general health was starting to decline, and when he was diagnosed with emphysema and put on medication, he permanently retired from comics and art.^[6]

Lawrence died in December 2003 of emphysema at the age of 75.^[3][6]

Awards

• 1980 Society of Illustration Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1981 Grand Prix Spatial
• 1987 Gouden Bommel Award
• 1994 De Stripschapprijs
• 1998 Pantera di Lucca Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2003 Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau

Bibliography

Comics work published in English include:

• The Look and Learn Book of the Trigan Empire (1973)
• The Trigan Empire (1978)
• Storm: The Deep World (1982)
• Storm: The Last Fighter (1987)
• Storm: The Pirates of Pandarve (1989)
• Tales From the Trigan Empire (1989)
• Cathy (1991) — reprints Carrie
• Don Lawrence Collected (2001)
• Storm The Collection Volume 1 (May 2004
  ISBN 978-90-73508-52-1
  )
• Storm The Collection Volume 2 (May 2004
  ISBN 978-90-73508-49-1
  )
• The Trigan Empire: The Prisoner of Zerss (August 2004
  ISBN 978-90-73508-54-5
  )
• Storm The Collection Volume 3 (September 2004
  ISBN 978-90-73508-57-6
  )
• Don Lawrence: The Legacy Book 1 — Storm (October 2004)
• The Trigan Empire: The Sun-Worshippers (February 2005
  ISBN 978-90-73508-62-0
  )
• The Trigan Empire: The House of the Five Moons (June 2005
  ISBN 978-90-73508-64-4
  )
• Storm The Collection Volume 4 (June 2005
  ISBN 978-90-73508-68-2
  )
• The Trigan Empire: The Curse of King Yutta (December 2005
  ISBN 978-90-73508-66-8
  )
• Storm The Collection Volume 5 (February 2006
  ISBN 978-90-73508-77-4
  )
• The Trigan Empire: The Three Princes (May 2006
  ISBN 978-90-73508-78-1
  )
• Don Lawrence: The Legacy Book 2 — Women (June 2006)
• The Trigan Empire: The Rallu Invasion (August 2006
  ISBN 978-90-73508-82-8
  )
• Pandarve: The Worlds of Don Lawrence (September 2006)
• The Trigan Empire: The Reign of Thara (November 2006
  ISBN 978-90-73508-84-2
  )
• The Trigan Empire: Revolution in Zabriz (March 2007
  ISBN 978-90-73508-91-0
  )
• Storm The Collection Volume 6 (April 2007
  ISBN 978-90-73508-81-1
  )
• Storm The Collection Volume 7 (April 2007
  ISBN 978-90-73508-97-2
  )
• The Trigan Empire: The Puppet Emperor (November 2007
  ISBN 978-90-73508-93-4
  )
• Karl the Viking (October 2008) (also released as a box-set containing all four volumes):
  • Volume 1: The Sword of Eingar (
    ISBN 978-9088860-32-4
    )
  • Volume 2: The Powers of Helvud (
    ISBN 978-9088860-34-8
    )
  • Volume 3: Island of the Monsters (
    ISBN 978-9088860-36-2
    )
  • Volume 4: Quest of the Long Ships (
    ISBN 978-9088860-38-6
    )
• Storm The Collection Volume 8 (October 2008
  ISBN 978-90-73508-99-6
  )
• Storm The Collection Volume 9 (October 2008
  ISBN 978-90-8886-023-2
  )
• The Trigan Empire: The Invaders From Gallas (forthcoming 2009)
• The Trigan Empire: The Green Smog (forthcoming 2009)

References

External links

• Official website
• Look and Learn magazine search for Don Lawrence