Zip Nolan full page 3 (Original)
Medium: Pen & Ink on Board
Size: 16" x 20" (400mm x 500mm)
Date: 1969
Code: BunnZip003
This is the unique original Pen & Ink drawing by Reg Bunn.
Zip Nolan was an enormously popular strip in the British weekly comic Lion in the 1960s. The strip featured a US Highway patrolman solving crimes in England in the 1960s.
Beautifully rendered pen and ink work by Reg Bunn in a similar style to his work on The Spider. This is an original page of art from the series.
- Artist BiographyReg Bunn (born October 1905; active late 1940s - 1970; Kings Norton, Birmingham, England)
Reg Bunn was the most prolific artist working on the Thriller Comics Library. Best known for his many Robin Hood strips, Bunn did excellent work on the U.S. Cavalry Westerns of Ernest Haycox (The Border Trumpet no. 32) and James Warner Bellah (The White Invader no. 88 and Sabre and Tomahawk no. 95) as well as on such diverse titles as Black Hood no. 21), The Scottish Chiefs (no. 58) and Captain Kidd (no. 105). The vast majority of his Thriller Comics output, however, was for the Robin Hood titles. So closely did he become associated with the character that often, when another artist was drawing the strip, Bunn would be asked just to fill in the faces, so that some sort of conformity of style would be achieved.
Reg Bunn was one of only two people signed up by Leonard Matthews after a nationwide campaign to find strip artists in 1949. The other was Geoff Campion. Coincidentally, both artists came from Birmingham, though neither knew the other. Through invalidity, Bunn was forced to take a sedentary job and, with an open, rounded, jovial, warm-spirited style (his Buck Jones strips, 1949/50 and his earliest Robin Hood work, 1949/51, both for Comet), it changed over the years until it had become decidedly angular by the time he came to draw The Spider and The Waxer for Lion in the 1960s.
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