“I fell in love with Peter O'Donnell's astonishing heroine, Modesty Blaise, when I was twelve... As I grew up I also came to admire the craft with which she was brought to the world, the lunatic skills of her creator, and, last of all, I found the comic strips, where she started, and discovered just how much of what I loved about Modesty was there from the beginning...” — Neil Gaiman
“I fell in love with Peter O'Donnell's astonishing heroine, Modesty Blaise, when I was twelve... As I grew up I also came to admire the craft with which she was brought to the world, the lunatic skills of her creator, and, last of all, I found the comic strips, where she started, and discovered just how much of what I loved about Modesty was there from the beginning...” — Neil Gaiman