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Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children’s writer whose books have been among the world’s [...]
July 18, 2018
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TOM KERR is a British comic strip artist whose work has appeared in comics such as Look-in, the Eagle, Valiant, and TV21. He has also drawn for [...]
July 17, 2018
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Stuart Trotter is a British children’s book illustrator and the author of ‘Rupert Bear’ since 2008. He has drawn ‘Winnie [...]
July 17, 2018
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RICHARD E. JENNINGS was born in Hampstead, England (20 May 1921 – 19 January 1997) was a British comic book artist who lived and worked in the [...]
July 17, 2018
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Philip Townsend is one of the lesser known artist that worked for British girls’ comics. He drew for June in the late 1960’s and [...]
July 17, 2018
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Peter Charles Geoffrey Jackson (4 March 1922, in Brighton – 2 May 2003, in Northwood, London) was a British artist who is noted for his cartoon [...]
July 17, 2018
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(b. 11 March 1934, UK) Paul Trevillion is a highly acclaimed sports artist in Europe. He drew the ‘Roy of the Rovers’ soccer comic in [...]
July 16, 2018
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NIGEL KITCHING (born 29 May 1959) is an illustrator and writer in comics and in books. He is best known for his work in British comics, [...]
July 16, 2018
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(28 January 1874 – 15 March 1948, UK) Mary Tourtel was the creator of ‘Rupert Bear’, the famous newspaper comic of the Daily [...]
July 16, 2018
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MALCOLM JUDGE (1918 – 17 January 1989) was a British cartoonist, best known for his contributions to DC Thomson’s range of comics. He was [...]
July 16, 2018
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KENNETH NORMAN LILLY (1929–1996) was a British wildlife artist who contributed many painted pages to Look and Learn and Treasure magazines.
July 16, 2018
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(b. 1947, UK) John Harrold was a longtime artist of the comic adventures of the bear ‘Rupert’ for the Daily Express. He was born in [...]
July 16, 2018
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JOHN COOPER (1942 – 22 February 2015) was a British comics artist. Cooper was born in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, in 1942. In 1963 he became [...]
July 16, 2018
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(1930 – January 2005, Scotland) Jim Turnbull was a Scottish cartoonist, who work appeared in the Glasgow newspaper The Herald for many [...]
July 16, 2018
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J. F. Sullivan (1852-1936) “The British Working-Man” from Fun James Frank Sullivan was born on 31 October 1852 at Great Ormond [...]
July 15, 2018
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IAN KENNEDY (born 22 September 1932, Dundee, Scotland) is a UK artist who worked initially for D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, then later for [...]
July 15, 2018
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(21 December 1918 – 8 July 1985, UK) Frank Hampson was only thirteen when he got an assignment to draw sketches for Meccano Magazine. At [...]
July 15, 2018
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DONALD SOUTHAM LAWRENCE (17 November 1928 – 29 December 2003) was a British comic book artist and author. Lawrence is best known for his comic [...]
July 15, 2018
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BRIAN MONCRIEFF LEWIS (3 June 1929 – 4 December 1978) was a British science fiction illustrator, comics artist and animator. Lewis served in [...]
July 15, 2018
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British comic book artist Bill Titcombe started illustrating children’s comics in the late 1950s. He created ‘Buster’, the son [...]
July 15, 2018
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(14 December 1892, Upper Burma – 15 January 1986, UK) Alfred Bestall is a British illustrator of children’s books and Amalgamated [...]
July 15, 2018
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(1 August 1911 – 1995, UK) Alex Cubie was a Scottish animator, illustrator and comics artist. He is best known as one of the main artists [...]
July 15, 2018
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WAYNE THOMPSON is a freelance illustrator/comic book artist from Gloucestershire. He has worked on several characters for DC Thompson’s The [...]
July 13, 2018
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TREVOR METCALFE born May 1939 in Brotton, Yorkshire is a British illustrator and comic book artist. Known for his comic strips in IPC Magazines [...]
July 13, 2018
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TOM TULLY is one the most prolific writers ever to grace British comics, whose diverse portfolio of work covers over forty decades. Born in [...]
July 13, 2018
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TOM PATERSON is a Scottish comic artist who drew characters for Fleetway in 1973–1990, and D.C Thomson from 1986-onwards. He lives in Leith, [...]
July 13, 2018
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TERRY BAVE (b. 1931) British artist Terry Bave worked as a trainee cartographer before turning to professional cartooning in the 1950s. His early [...]
July 13, 2018
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STEVE YEOWELL is a longtime collaborator of 2000 AD. He studied 3D Design at Sheffield Polytechnic, where graduated in 1984. His first published [...]
July 13, 2018
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STEVE BRIGHT, also known as “Brighty”, is a British cartoonist and illustrator. He is an editorial cartoonist with The Sun, and also [...]
July 13, 2018
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STEVE BELL (b. 26 February 1951) is one of Britain’s sharpest political cartoonists. His best known work are the satirical comics [...]
July 13, 2018
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SIDNEY WILLIAM BURGON learned the elements of sketching from his mother. Burgon became a mechanic, while continuing to draw. It were his [...]
July 13, 2018
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SCOTT GOODALL was born in Aberdeen in 1935. After returning from the far east where he was sent after being called up for National Service, [...]
July 13, 2018
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ROY MITCHELL was a prolific cartoonist and comic strip artist since the 1970s. He contributed his work to the Express Newspapers, Mirror Group, [...]
July 12, 2018
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RON TURNER’s artwork emerged in the independent comic books of 1949. His first color work, like ‘Giants of the Second World’ [...]
July 12, 2018
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ROBERT NIXON: Long associated with the Beano, the British children’s comics illustrator and cartoonist Robert Nixon has died, aged 63. [...]
July 12, 2018
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REGINALD EDWARD PARLETT (2 August 1904 – 18 November 1991) was an artist from England who had a career of drawing for comic books that lasted [...]
July 12, 2018
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PHIL GASCOINE (8 June 1934 – August 2007) was a British comics artist, best known for his work in comics such as Jinty, Bunty, and Battle [...]
July 12, 2018
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PETER SUTHERLAND (11 August 1921 – 1977) was born in the Leicestershire village of Somerby. After serving in the REME during World War II, [...]
July 12, 2018
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NIGEL PARKINSON is a regular artist for the D.C. Thomson magazines The Beano and The Dandy, as well as the companion title BeanoMAX. During the [...]
July 12, 2018
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MIKE WHITE was a British comic artist known principally for his work on various IPC/Fleetway and DC Thomson titles. Mike White began submitting [...]
July 12, 2018
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Widely regarded as one of the best artists to ever grace the British comic industry, MIKE WESTERN, began his career on Knockout, having already [...]
July 11, 2018
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MIKE LACEY is a productive artist whose work has appeared in nearly all Fleetway/IPC funnies since the 1970s. For many years, he drew [...]
July 11, 2018
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MIKE HUBBARD (2 April 1902, Ireland – 25 June 1976) was born ERNEST ALFRED HUBBARD in Dublin, Ireland. He came to London after World War I [...]
July 11, 2018
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MASSIMO BELARDINELLI (5 June 1938 – 31 March 2007) was an Italian comic artist best known for his work in the British science fiction comic [...]
July 11, 2018
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LEW STRINGER (born 22 March 1959 in England) is a freelance comic artist and scriptwriter. Stringer began his career from the late 1970s with a [...]
July 11, 2018
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LEE SULLIVAN trained as a wildlife and technical illustrator at Barnfield College, then spent five years as a graphic artist for British [...]
July 11, 2018
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Often cited as one of Britain’s greatest comic book illustrators, KEN REID was born in Manchester in 1919. An avis artist from an early age, [...]
July 11, 2018
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JOSEPH LEO BAXENDALE (27 October 1930 – 23 April 2017) was an English cartoonist and publisher. Baxendale wrote and drew several titles. Among [...]
July 11, 2018
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Discovering his love of comics through reading The Eagle, JOHN STOKES would later join his brother George at IPC, where he worked on several [...]
July 10, 2018
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John K. Geering (9 March 1941 – 13 August 1999) JOHN KEITH GEERING was one of the notable artists for British children’s comic [...]
July 10, 2018
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JOHN EDWARD OLIVER (19 June 1942 – 26 May 2007) was a British cartoonist. He is more usually known as J. Edward Oliver or JEO, and to his [...]
July 10, 2018
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JIM PETRIE was born in Dundee, Scotland, and worked for DC Thomson and its magazine The Beano for forty years. He was an art teacher at [...]
July 10, 2018
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JAMES “JIM” CROCKER is a prolific artist whose work has appeared in many IPC funnies since the 1970s. He created among others the two [...]
July 10, 2018
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I’m very sorry to hear of the passing of the artist JAMES HANSEN (often known as Jimmy Hansen) who died on Tuesday 19th June 2018. In a [...]
July 10, 2018
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Jack Clayton drew for Cheeky, Jackpot and Buster comic. He did the wonderful joke page Hit the Jackpot! Where so much detail was put in the [...]
July 10, 2018
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IAN KNOX (born 4 May 1943, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a political cartoonist for the Irish News, and also drew cartoons for the BBC Northern [...]
July 9, 2018
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The artist GIORGIO GIORGETTI (1920-1982) who was the creator/artist of Catgirl and left some of his original Catgirl work..given to his son [...]
July 9, 2018
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Scottish artist FRANK QUITELY is best known for his work on such series as ‘JLA: Earth’ and ‘Authority’. He began his [...]
July 9, 2018
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FRANK MINNITT (3 September 1894 – 12 May 1958) was a comic artist for the publications of D.C. Thomson and Amalgamated Press, and is best [...]
July 9, 2018
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FRANK McDIARMID was a British, originally from Glasgow, comics artist best known for his work on Roger the Dodger in the Beano and on IPC humour [...]
July 9, 2018
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FRANCISCO S0LANO LOPEZ (26th October 1928-12th August 2011) was a comics artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina, who entered the field in 1953 with [...]
July 9, 2018
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The great ERIC BRADBURY began his comic career at Knockout, working on such humour strips as Blossom and Our Ernie. He moved onto the adventure [...]
July 9, 2018
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DUDLEY DEXTER WATKINS (27 February 1907 – 20 August 1969) was an English cartoonist and illustrator. He is best known for his characters Oor [...]
July 9, 2018
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DICK MILLINGTON is best known for his Fleetway comics in the 1960s and 1970s and for the comic strip ‘Mighty Moth’ in TV Comic. He [...]
July 8, 2018
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DENIS GIFFORD (26 December 1927 – 18 May 2000) was a British writer, broadcaster, journalist, comic artist and historian of film, comics, [...]
July 8, 2018
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DAVID SUTHERLAND is a prolific and longtime contributor for DC Thomson’s children’s comic The Beano. Among his early features were [...]
July 8, 2018
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DAVID LAW worked for Scottish editor D.C.Thomson since about 1945, drawing cartoons for local papers. One of these was a young version of [...]
July 8, 2018
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In addition to several years as a regular cartoonist for the staggeringly sophisticated British magazines Zit Comic and Spit, CAT SULLIVAN has [...]
July 8, 2018
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At the age of sixteen, BRIAN WALKER applied for an art job at the Bristol Evening World. He drew war maps and gag cartoons. After service in the [...]
July 8, 2018
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Cor!! was a children’s humour weekly launched by IPC (International Publishing Corporation), on 6 June 1970, their sixth new comic in just [...]
July 8, 2018
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BILL LACEY was with the RAF during World War II, and after the War he became a technical artist at the Ministry of Aircraft. He did his first [...]
July 8, 2018
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BARRY APPLEBY (30 August 1909 – 11 March 1996) was a British cartoonist famous for creating The Gambols for the Daily Express. The strip [...]
July 7, 2018
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BARRIE MITCHELL is an artist of UK action, sports and adventure comics. He drew for romance titles like Bunty, Mandy and Diana, as well as action [...]
July 7, 2018
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Suffolk-based artist BARRIE APPLEBY has been working for British comic books the 1970s. Coming from Barnsley, Yorkshire, he began his career at [...]
July 7, 2018
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ALLAN MORLEY (Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Great Britain, 29 April 1895 – Thanet, Kent 5 September 1960) was a British comic artist. He [...]
July 7, 2018
