Axa & the Bear

Original production drawing of Axa with a bear, created by Enric Badia Romero for his new Axa comic book released in February this year. This is one of the first available original drawings showing the heroine with different animals.
After several years creating two specific series for Fleetway and different stories for the American warren years years Publishing, in 1970 the London newspaper Evening Standard proposed to Romero to replace Jim Holdaway, unexpected death, as illustrator of the famous Modesty Blaise series in association with writer Peter O’Donnell. Thanks to the popularity of the character, issued in principle until 1978, Romero gained an international reputation as a cartoonist. For his own publishing firm “Ruiz Romero” he produced the cromos album “Millions of years ago” (“Hace millones de años”, 1972), among others series.
This unique piece is hand signed by the artist and includes the Certificate of Authenticity of Corner4art.