Contributed to Swift Annual 3 (1956). Frank Rudolphe C. Newnham was born in Ryde on the Isle of Wight in 1891, the son of James Young Newnh...

Pamela Anne Neads (b. 23 April 1931, d. 1992, aged 61) contributed an anonymous illustration to Swift Annual 6 (1959). The only other work ...

Harcourt Dennis Mallet (occasionally misspelled Mallett) was born in 23 May 1909 in Wallington, Surrey, and educated at Parkside Preparatory...

Apart from the following list of books he illustrated, I know nothing about George Lane except he produced illustrations for Swift Annual s ...

I've been unable to find out anything about Jessett other than that he may have been represented by Associated Freelance Artists Ltd. Al...

Meanwhile, back at the Swift Annual project... Beryl Irving is best known for her book The Dawnchild which appeared in 1926, illustrated i...

Not a huge amount of excitement so far in 2007; the cold bug that's going around reached me on New Year's Day and it's still her...

W. Stephens Hayward : Gambler and alcoholic who wasted a fortune worth half a million in only a few years, but could count Robert Louis St...

Robert Hodgson was a very prolific illustrator who contributed to Swift Annual 1963 and Girl Annual 1963 . He was associated with a number ...

Len Fullerton is primarily known as a nature and wildlife artist but had an interesting career before that. The earliest trace of Fullerton ...

Terence Reginald Freeman contributed to Swift Annual 3 to 7 (1956-60). Born in 1909 and raised in London, he studied at Clapham School of A...

Donald Bissett was the author of hundreds of short tales for Robin in the 1960s. Many featured the character 'Tubby the Odd-Job Engine...

Gino D'Antonio, one of the finest artists of comics and much beloved in his native Italy, died on 24 December at the age of 79. Born Lui...

Pat Lamburn was one of the innovators of British girls' romance comics in the 1950s, a point that rather slips by the obituary that has ...