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The Trigan Empire
Having read an article today about the erotic art of Oliver Frey, I immediately thought "I know that name".
Then I remembered as an under 11 year old reading a comic strip called "The Trigan Empire". Does anyone remember it? |
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Having read an article today about the erotic art of Oliver Frey, I immediately thought "I know that name".
Then I remembered as an under 11 year old reading a comic strip called "The Trigan Empire". Does anyone remember it? ![]() G |
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Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigan_Empire It seems Frey was not the only artist though. G |
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The Trigan Empire was fantastic, and a cheap, good quality reprint or set of reprints is long overdue. Imagine the Roman Empire with spaceships and rayguns, that was it.
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Didn't the main villains have blue skin??
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"The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire" was by Don Lawrence and first appeared in "Ranger" although everyone associates it with "Look & Learn".
It took DL about two weeks to illustrate each episode, adding to the established tradition of British painted comics as opposed to the more common US ink/pencil offerings. If the US had a tradition of painted comics in the 60s I must have missed it. It's been reprinted in book form many times but there's so much of it that I doubt anyone has ever read it all the way through. The blue-skinned villains were the Lokans (boo!)
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"The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire" was by Don Lawrence and first appeared in "Ranger" although everyone associates it with "Look & Learn".
It took DL about two weeks to illustrate each episode, adding to the established tradition of British painted comics as opposed to the more common US ink/pencil offerings. If the US had a tradition of painted comics in the 60s I must have missed it. It's been reprinted in book form many times but there's so much of it that I doubt anyone has ever read it all the way through. The blue-skinned villains were the Lokans (boo!) ![]() |
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I remember reading it in Vulcan, in the mid 70's.
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I rememeber reading somewhere that Asterix made his first appearance in Look and Learn where he was renamed Beric the Brave
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One thing about "The Trigan Empire" has always intrigued me: was there ever a story in which the spacecraft featured in the opening story actually set off and where was it going? What were the crew up to and how did they die?
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I tried to bid on a Trigan Empire collection a couple of years ago, it went for over £70 so it was beyond my means and shows just how popular this strip remains. Certainly it is time that they were republished.
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Having read an article today about the erotic art of Oliver Frey, I immediately thought "I know that name".
Then I remembered as an under 11 year old reading a comic strip called "The Trigan Empire". Does anyone remember it?
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Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigan_Empire It seems Frey was not the only artist though. G |
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Oh yeah, from 'Look and Learn'! Essentially the Romans if they'd had microchips. I must say it was my favourite part as I was too young to enjoy the rest of the magazine, a quintisentially British production so the Trigan Empire was my favourite part. If I recall they may have been reprinted a little while back?
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I remember being given this when I was a child for Xmas, as a hardback book. The book was massive!
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I had the book of this, when I was eleven or twelve. Emperor Trigo was one of three brothers. He was the noble, courageous, handsome one. He had a brother called Brag (?) who was good-hearted but not too bright (so of course convention dictated he had to be heavier-featured, more brawny, and less good looking) . His other brother was called Klud (?). a villainous character, eager to do down his much more popular brother, Trigo: he sported a goatee beard (hmmm, villain with a goatee: not too cliched, eh!?).
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Seen the books in Forbidden planet but they were about £50. The funny thing I remember about it is that either in this or a similar work by the same artist one of the heroines went bare breasted.
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Seen the books in Forbidden planet but they were about £50. The funny thing I remember about it is that either in this or a similar work by the same artist one of the heroines went bare breasted.
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I used to buy Ranger mainly for this strip- the artwork was superb. Unfortunately Ranger ended being "incorporated" into the dreadful Look & Learn which I reluctantly had to buy to follow the story.
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