(via David Lloyd's lforlloyd web site): For those of us sad at the loss of the once-plentiful adventure strips that used to appear in our newspapers - especially original ones not tied in to some licenced product - there was more saddening news to bear earlier this month, picked up by artist David Lloyd, but which I've only just read.Nicky Saxx - possibly the only originated adventure strip still existing in a European newspaper - was cancelled earlier this month. "Its last three panels halted an adventure, leaving the strip's heroine lost somewhere at the bottom of the ocean," David related.
The Nicky Saxx strip has been running for some years now as a daily in Holland's largest-selling newspaper, De Telegraaf. Nicky and her friend, Elsa Steiner, are globe-trotting adventurers with a taste for danger, hiring themselves out as troubleshooters and investigators of the paranormal via their organisation, Room 666, which is located in a disused lighthouse on the East Coast of America. Aided by computer expert and technical wizard, Ben Folds, the duo specialise in helping all those people the conventional law-enforcement bodies cannot assist.
"The artist of Saxx, Minck Oosterveer, is a friend of mine," David comments. "Without him telling me about the death of this gloriously sexy adventurer he'd created many years ago with his writer colleague, Willem Ritstier, I'd never have known anything about it. News like it rarely reaches any comics trade periodicals or sites, whose only interest in newspaper strips now relates to honouring the past glories of such figures as Milton Caniff or Noel Sickles.
"Go to the graveyard, folks. See them spinning there!"
