EXTRACTS: Don Lawrence Art (illustrators special) © 2018 The Book Palace (144 PAGES in Full edition)

about informing the reader what’s going on. That’s a trap that’s easy to fall into.” “I’ve never been a great one for analysis. I tend to just get on with it and not to worry whether that works and that one doesn’t work. Always you do a bad page. In every story I’ve got several bad pages but you’ve got to live with that. You’re always going to do a bad page or two in every story…more, even. Certain weeks you don’t operate quite right, nothing comes out right. Some days you’d do best to stay in bed… Some days you’re on the ball, other days you can’t even see the ball!” “I don’t think there’s the perfect script or a perfect artist. It doesn’t exist but it’s that search that’s the fun. All we can do with the tools we’ve got is make the best job we can.” How would you like to be remembered? “As a good craftsman. That is the best I could ask for. ‘He was a good craftsman. He knew his job and he did it well’.” • In 1999, the relaunched Pandarve began serialising the opening pages of the final Storm album, ‘De Armageddon Reiziger’. The unlettered page above was one of the last Lawrence painted; the book was completed with the aid of Liam Sharp. Right: Lawrence painted himself into the cover of the collection De Werelden van Don Lawrence: Storm (1991). 33 © Don Lawrence Collection