Jim Holdaway [SEP] place of birth
Jim Holdaway
Jim Holdaway (1927–1970) was a British illustrator, who contributed art for numerous comic strips. His best known work was on the "Modesty Blaise" comics written by Peter O'Donnell.
Art career.
Jim Holdaway was born in 1927 in Barnes Common, London. On completing schooling in New Malden, Surrey, Holdaway attended the Kingston School of Art. After spending two years of National Service from 1945 with the East Surrey Regiment, Holdaway went to Italy, Austria and Greece before returning to art school
", the final Modesty Blaise book, which contains five stories that take place where Modesty's age moves from 20 to 52 (approximately), and the 2003 film "My Name Is Modesty", which is a prequel depicting Modesty in her late teens.
Comic strip.
Having conceived the idea after a chance meeting with a girl during his wartime service in the Middle East, O'Donnell elected to work with Jim Holdaway, with whom he had worked on the strip "Romeo Brown", after a trial period