The schedule of a freelance cartoonist can often either be barren or blisteringly busy, and I'm glad to say it's the latter this month. Things could swing the other way at a moment's notice of course but at present I don't have time to post any detailed articles on this blog. Instead, here's a quick look at the cover of a wartime issue of Knock-Out from my archives. Issue No.88, dated November 2nd, 1940. World War 2 was well under way, but comics like these brightened up the lives of children across the UK.
Knock-Out was published by The Amalgamated Press as a rival to Thomson's Dandy and Beano. The artwork to this Deed-A-Day Danny strip is by Hugh McNeill, and you can read a lot more about this talented artist over at Steve Holland's blog here:
http://bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2006/12/hugh-mcneill.html
Right, back to the drawing board to draw strips of my own that perhaps someone else will be blogging about in 70 years time!
2 comments:
Let's hope that in 70 years time comics won't be just an ancient curiosity like wind-up gramaphones and penny farthings!
I'm sure comics will survive in some form, just as music has. Even if they're downloaded straight into our brains, where we can read them in a virtual world of lucid dreams.
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