Lesser known art of Roland Davies

The Lesser Known Art of Roland Davies
by Gordon Howsden

Roland Davies is arguably best remembered today for his cartoon and comic strips but there was much more to his art than that. A number of profiles have already been written about Roland Davies including a superbly comprehensive chapter in Norman Wright and Davis Ashford’s recent publication, Masters of Fun and Thrills. It is hardly necessary to write yet another but, as an introduction to some of his art that is not so well known, I think it appropriate just to mention some of the salient points of his stellar career as an artist and illustrator.

The first thing worth mentioning is the rather strange discrepancies relating to his date of birth. No one seems to dispute that he was born in Stourport, Worcestershire and named Roland Oxford Davies, but the exact day and year of birth have varied among normally reliable sources. In an article I wrote about him for Cartophilic Notes & News I plumped for 22 July 1904 and I am pleased to say that Steve Holland also believes this to be the correct date.

Roland attended evening classes at the Ipswich School of Art before enrolling for full-time study. His first job was as an apprentice lithographer where his assignments included designing cinema and railway posters. His first freelance work appears to be for motor-related magazines, which is in accord with Roland’s own keen interest in speed. When a new boy’s weekly, Modern Boy, was launched in 1928 Roland was among the recruits engaged to design the action-filled front covers.

His work for Modern Boy and similar comic papers brought him to the attention of printers Mardon, Son & Hall, and Roland was commissioned to prepare the artwork for a series of 50 cards to be issued by Ogden’s and titled “ Motor Races, 1931”. This was a significant assignment as Davies was also required to write 80-100 word texts to accompany the illustrations - and all to a tight deadline originally set as 10 November 1931.

The set features both cars and motor cycles, with the first 33 cards covering the former and motor cycles the balance. The first card depicted Malcolm Campbell breaking the world’s land speed record in Blue Bird on Feb 5th with the cards then running in date order through to Sir Henry Birkin at Brooklands on Oct 17th. The motor cycle section covered various events from the 100 mile sand race at Southport on May 9th to the Manx Senior Grand Prix on Sept 10th. It was an astonishing feat to have recorded and describe these events in graphic detail, and although the original issue date was missed the cards finally found their way into packets of cigarettes in December 1931.

More important work lay ahead in the following year when Roland’s celebrated comic strip, “Come on Steve” was picked up by the Daily Express in March 1932. This ran until 1939 when unaccountably the Express let the strip lapse, although it was promptly picked up by the Sunday Dispatch and ran for a further 10 years. The character of carthorse Steve also featured in animated films and various books and booklets, the latter mainly appearing after the war published by Perry Colour Books.

Probably also in 1932 J Salmon Ltd of Sevenoaks in Kent became another client when they commissioned designs for their Salmon Series of postcards. I have five speed-related cards from this period although the likelihood is that at least six illustrations would have been commissioned. The items I have are: Talbot Car; Miss England; The Cheltenham Flyer; Schneider Trophy Winner and A Senior T.T. Winner. These were in print throughout the 1930s. Salmon’s maintained contact with Davies and during WWII he designed some superb action studies of British fighter aircraft. Reprints of these are still being produced by Salmon in modern postcard size.

On July 30th, 1938 D C Thomson launched their new comic, Beano, and Davies was among the first contributors with “Whoopee Hank” and “Contrary Mary the Moke”. The following year he was also engaged by Amalgamated Press to contribute to their new title, Knockout. During the War, Davies took up a permanent position with the Sunday Dispatch but continued to contribute elsewhere, including the Thomson sporting paper, Topical Times. His patriotic contributions to the war effort published by Raphael Tuck included Air War at Sea and War in the Air in addition to the titles mentioned in Masters of Fun and Thrills.

After the war, Roland contributed to several Teddy Tail Annuals, did a couple of motor cycle booklets for the Daily Mail and in 1949 took over the long running Sexton Blake strip in Knockout. From the 1950s onwards Roland Davies strips appeared in Swift, TV Comic, Girl and Disneyland in addition to which he contributed to several annuals. In the late 1960s to early 1970s Deans published a small number of children's booklets which featured Roland Davies’ artwork, but thereafter he changed direction and took to painting landscapes, seascapes and street scenes for the art market.

A wonderfully varied and creative career was brought to an end when Roland Davies died on 10 December 1993.

Note from Steve: Davies is often said to have been born in 1910, an error that I believe first appeared in Denis Gifford's entry for Davies in The World Encyclopedia of Comics. This date has been often repeated, but even the briefest check with birth and death records reveals that he was born in 1904.

(* artwork © variously to IPC Media, D. C. Thomson and Roland Davies Estate)

Roland Davies

Roland Oxford Davies was a highly prolific artist with a career spanning six decades during which time he carved out two careers, one as a cartoonist and humorous comic artist and a second as an illustrator dedicated to speed. His paintings of cars and trains emphasised speed and even his most famous cartoon creation, Steve from 'Come on Steve', had a turn of speed that was unexpected from a cart horse.

Far from being the slow, plodding creature that people might have expected from seeing horses from milk rounds or rag and bone carts, Steve was youthfully exhuberant, always wanted to keep up with the latest fashions and changing attitudes of the human society that surrounded him. Many of the strips drew their humour from Steve's curiosity, his ability (or inability) to interpret (or misinterpret) headlines from newspapers or his attempts to emulate the people he sees on his daily travels.

The Steve cartoons were an absolute delight and hugely popular in the 1930s. The title, 'Come on Steve' derived from the racetrack cries as punters urged on one of their favourite jockeys, Steve Donoghue (1884-1945), winner of six Derbys. Although Donoghue retired in the mid-1930s, when Davies started his cartoon in 1932, Donoghue was still a force to be reckoned with and, teamed up with Brown Jack, was still winning races in his early fifties.

Davies had first tried selling the strip as a daily to the Evening Standard but it was turned down; 'Come on Steve' soon found a home at the Sunday Express where editor John Gordon recognised its potential and requested it start the following week. The first strip appeared on 6 March 1932 and, ofter a few years, Davies bought himself a stop-frame camera and spent seven months making Steve Steps Out (1936). Approaching distributors Butcher Film Service Ltd., Davies secured a contract for six more knockabout animated cartoons featuring the horse. Davies put together a team of animators (including a young Carl Giles) under the banner Roland Davies Films Ltd. and Steve of the River (1936), pastiching Edgar Wallace's famous creation Sanders, was a great improvement on the first. Over the next few months Davies and his team produced a further four films, Steve's Treasure Hunt, Steve Cinderella, Steve's Cannon Crackers and Steve in Bohemia (all 1937). The last of the Steve cartoons was to be in colour but Steve Goes to London was never put into production.

The cartoon, however, continued to appear in the Sunday Express until 1939 and then switched to the Sunday Dispatch where he was to appear for another ten years.

Davies, born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, on 22 July 1904 (not 1910 as stated in The World Encyclopaedia of Comics), and studied art at Ipswich Art School (1919-21) before joining a firm of lithographers and produced cinema posters for a printing firm in West Drayton, in the London borough of Hillingdon. During this time he also freelanced cartoons to Motor Cycle magazine and illustrations to Autocar, Chums and Modern Boy before achieving a hit with 'Come on Steve'.

The success of the strip led to other work, including 'Larry Leopard' for the Daily Express Children's Own supplement (1933-34), 'Percy the Policeman' for the Sunday Express and 'Bessie' for the News Chronicle. In addition, he was also drawing sports cartoons for the Sunday Express and a daily pocket cartoon for the Evening News.

The Steve cartoons inspired two early books based on the cartoon drawings for Steve Steps Out and Steve of the River, published by the Children's Press in 1937 but the closure of his animation studio (which, apart from Steve, only produced one other cartoon, an advert for Ford Tractors) opened the way for other work. Now a full-time freelance, Davies began drawing 'Whoopee Hank, the Slapdash Sheriff' (1938-39) and 'Contrary Mary' (1938-40) for D. C. Thomson's new comic paper, The Beano. 'Boney the Brave (He Lives in a Cave)' (1939) was another Beano strip and 'Bandy Legs' appeared briefly in Magic Comic (1940-41), but by then the war was biting and Thomsons were forced to reduce page-counts and switch their surviving papers to a fortnightly schedule.

Davies established himself with the newly launched Knockout Comic from Amalgamated Press, beginning with 'Gummy' and 'Charlie Chasem' in 1939, and during the war, he produced a number of books, including Great Deeds of the War (1941) and Knights of the Air (1943). With the end of the war, Davies continued to produce books for newcomer Perry Colour Press for whom he created a number of new books about Steve, including Steve Goes to London (the lost Steve cartoon) and various others, ending with Steve and the Burglar and Steve and the Rading Car in 1949; that year, Collins published a scarce "Come on Steve" Annual 1950.

It was in Knockout that a new Davies emerged. Following the demise of Steve in the Sunday Dispatch and in book form, Davies reinvented himself as an adventure artist when he began drawing 'Sexton Blake' in 1949 and adapted the M-G-M movie Ambush for the same paper in 1950. Some of his Blake serials, which he continued to draw until 1952, were later reprinted in Knockout in 1961-62 with Blake's name changed to Pete Maddon.

Not that Davies had turned his back on his more humorous style, illustrating the 1949 edition of the Teddy Tail Annual and producing 'Norman and Henry Bones' for TV Comic (1953) and 'Roddy the Road Scout' (1954-1963?) and 'The Topple Twins (1954-55) for Swift. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he switched between the two styles, even in the same comic, thus alongside 'Jack and His Baby Jet' in TV Comic, Davies was also drawing 'Red Ray, Space Raynger', 'Wyatt Earp' (1957-59) appeared in Swift alongside Roddy and Davies even adapted 'Dixon of Dock Green' (1960-61) in the same paper.

Davies spread his wings widely over these decades, producing illustrations for books and comics, features for Comet, Sun, Girl, Boys' World, Wham! and others, strips for Super Detective Library, Eagle ('Knights of the Road', 1960), School Friend, Princess and Woman's Realm. In the early 1970s he could be found contributing a series of strips based on Walt Disney properties to Disneyland: 'Jungle Book' (1971), 'Peter Pan' (1971) and 'Winnie the Pooh' (1972). At the same time he was writing and illustrating a series of children's books featuring a character named Tim who appeared in a vaiety of guises, as a cowboy, an airman and an engine driver. In 1971, Davies also illustrated a range of Magic Roundabout spin-off books.

His last known comic strip, 'The Bantam Battlers', appeared in Victor in 1975. Davies, now in his seventies, retired after nearly fifty years as an illustrator, cartoonist and comic strip artist to take up painting. He staged several successful exhibitions in the 1980s. He died on 10 December 1993, aged 89.

(* I was intending to illustrate this with a variety of different strips by Roland Davies... but it took so long to write that it's now the wee hours of the morning and the idea of digging out piles of comics to scan is the furthest thing from my mind. Hopefully the tiny handful of Steve strips above will inspire someone to do a more comprehensive collection.

(I was very surprised to find that the 'Come on Steve' animated cartoons have their very own fanclub who collect the films and hope to create a new live-action Steve movie on 9.5 mm film entitled Steve Saves the Day. According to the website, the film will be produced in 2007. Could this mean that the six Steve cartoons might also be made available somehow?)

Update (22 August 2008): The new movie appears to have stalled and the website mentioned has disappeared. However, I have recently heard from Adrian Roper, who set up Roland Davies Animation in January 1998, located in Ipswich, Suffolk, and named after the creator of Come on, Steve with the permission of Davies' daughter.

Adrian is working on various projects, including a short documentary entitled Roland Davies, the Forgotten Animator using old archive footage of Ipswich, and newly shot footage. In 2002, he began work on a colour animation based on one of Davies' old cartoons, Steve in Bohemia. The project ground to a halt due to the work and time involved. Adrian is selling off the 400 pencil drawings and 50 colour cels that were created for the project.

A DVD containing all six of the Come on Steve animations is available. Price £12 + 75p postage in the UK. Cheque or PO payable to G. L. Newnham, 22 Warren Place, Calmore, Southampton SO40 2SD.

Come on, Steve! by Roland Davies

My good friend John Adcock spotted this on YouTube. I've been on the lookout for the Steve animated cartoons for some years. According to the fan site, all six cartoons exist and hopefully the enigmatic 'spectograph' who posted Cinderella Steve (1937) will also post the other five. I don't want to get your expectations up too high as the quality is not that good.

'Come on, Steve!' was a long-running cartoon strip in the Sunday Express, later transferred to the Sunday Dispatch, written and drawn by Roland Davies. Davies (1904-1993) produced six animated 'Come on, Steve!' cartoons in 1936-37 out of his own little studio in Ipswich, Suffolk. The films even have their own fan club. Steve also starred in a number of books and a couple of Annuals.

I have to confess that 'Come On, Steve!' is one of my all time favourite strips. There's something about the "loveable, usually stupid, occasionally artful" (to quote Sunday Dispatch editor Charles Eade) animal. Steve, prone to misunderstanding whatever he sees, whether it's people acting normally or the latest headlines, was the antithesis of Roland Davies' usual loves: sports, cars, trains -- anything that moved at speed!

Why I love this particular strip is probably buried deep in my psyche. Things don't always go the way he plans but that horse has heart; he wants to do the right thing... you can't help but love him.

(* I believe 'Come on, Steve!' is © The Estate of Roland Davies; if the strip immediately above has a slightly familiar ring to it, it's because the middle panel was used in Maurice Horn's World Encyclopedia of Comics.)

Betty Roland

Yes, another bit of research into comic strip writers. Betty Roland was another name I was reminded of by the Best of Girl book as it reprints two of her comic strips. Betty was credited with only a handful of strips in Girl, namely:

Pat of Paradise Isle (28 Oct 1953-7 Apr 1954, art by Dudley Pout)
Laura and the Legend of Hadley House (14 Apr 1954-27 Oct 1954, art by Dudley Pout)
Vicky [various stories] (3 Nov 1954-16 Aug 1958, art by Dudley Pout)
Angela Air Hostess (23 Aug 1958-14 Nov 1961, art by Dudley Pout)

Not much of a CV, although both 'Vicky' and 'Angela Air Hostess' were popular strips in their day. Both Vicky and Angela Wells were globe-trotting adventuresses, the former through the work of her father, Professor Curtis, the latter through her job.

According to birth records, Betty Roland was born Mary Isabel MacLean in Kaniva, Victoria, Australia, on 22 July 1903, the daughter of Roland (a physician) and Matilda MacLean.

She grew up in the Mallee district of the Australian bush and began writing while she was at school at the Church of England girls' grammar school in Melbourne. She married Ellis H. Davies at the age of 19 and had a son, Peter Ellis Davies. She became a journalist for Table Talk and the Sun News-Pictorial before writing her first and most popular play, 'The Touch of Silk', in 1928 which was a favourite of amateur theatre and radio broadcasts but did not have its first professional production until 1976. As Betty M. Davies, she scripted Spur of the Moment (1931), the first 'talkie' made in Australia.

In the late 1920s she met a wealthy Marxist intellectual, Guido Baracchi, and seperated from her husband in 1932 (they divorced in 1934). With Baracchi, she went to London in 1933 and then travelled to Leningrad and Moscow, originally for 21 days but the pair stayed for over a year, Betty working on the Moscow Daily News, sharing a room with Katherine Susannah Pritchard, and smuggling literature into Nazi Germany; her diaries from this period became the basis for her first volume of autobiography, Caviar For Breakfast (1979).

She returned to Australia in 1935 and immersed herself in left-wing politics, writing numerous agit-prop plays depicting the workers' struggle for Communist Review. She lived in Melbourne for two years before moving to Sydney, buying land and building a house in Castlecrag in living with Baracchi until their relationship broke down in 1942.

She established the New Theatre League and began writing regularly for Australian radio, her plays including The First Gentleman, Daddy Was Asleep, The White Cockade, A Woman Scorned, The Drums of Manalao and In His Steps, broadcast in 1942-49.

In 1951, she legally changed her name to Betty Roland and, in 1952, moved to London with her daughter (by Baracchi), Gilda. She wrote for various magazines including Harper's Bazaar, Girl, Swift, Woman's Own and Women's Weekly as well as writing the screenplay for Heights of Danger (1953) and the TV play 'Granite Peak' (1957).

Roland journeyed to the Greek island of Lesbos before returning to Australia in 1961, where she up an artists' community at Montsalvat, outside Melbourne. She continued to write for Australian radio and a number of well-received children's novels. She was a founder member of the Australian Society of Authors and was a member of the ASA management committee and treasurer. In 1993 she was made an honorary life member.

Betty Roland wrote a number of novels in the early 1970s and the first volume of her autobiography at the end of the decade; this was followed by The Eye of the Beholder (1984), An Improbable Life (1989) and The Devious Being (1990). She died in Sydney, Australia, on 12 February 1996.

A 1992 photograph of Roland can be found at the National Library of Australia web site.

I was particularly interested to learn (from her entry in Contemporary Authors) that Betty Roland wrote for Swift. I have found nothing credited to her (the whole paper was strictly anonymous, unlike its elder siblings Eagle and Girl). Betty is, however, an almost dead cert to be the writer of 'Sue Carter', another global traveller whose adventures ran between 1954 and 1957. Apparently, there is some discussion of her life in London in one of her autobiographical books which I'm trying to track down. Hopefully some of her comic work is discussed.

Notes
Biographical information derived from Contemporary Authors, Working Lives, AusLit. With thanks to John Herrington and Rowan Gibbs.

Pictures
'Angela Air Hostess' and 'Vicky and the Vengeance of the Incas' (c) IPC Media Ltd.
'Sue Carter in Candle Dance' (c) Look and Learn Magazine Ltd.


(* By coincidence, Betty Roland was also the name of one of the Silent Three, the infamous masked schoolgirls from St. Kit's boarding school. Now there's a subject for an article if anyone wants to tackle it.)

Sporty Shorty by Roland Davies

Long-time readers will know I'm a big fan of Roland Davies, whose "Come On, Steve!" has been mentioned here quite a few times over the years, so you can imagine how pleased I am to have stumbled across a previously unrecorded strip by Davies in the pages of Everybody's: "Sporty Shorty"—or "Sporting Shorty" as the title seemed to change each week. Davies was a master of the pantomime gag strip... and here's a small selection (sadly all I have) so you can judge for yourself. All date from 1939, the first appearing on 15 April.

(* Everybody's © IPC Media.)

Comic Cuts

A couple of items that came my way over the weekend.

'Come on, Steve' the DVD! I finally picked up a collection of Roland Davies' animated cartoons featuring the infamous—well, here at Bear Alley, anyway—adventures of Steve the Horse. 'Come on, Steve' was a popular comic strip back in the 1930s in the Sunday Express. I've covered Roland Davies before and posted one of the old 'Come on, Steve' animations a year ago (sadly now no longer available on YouTube).

Davies and his little Ipswich-based studio produced six short cartoons in 1936-37. The animation is relatively crude compared to what was to come later and distinctly non-PC (especially 'Steve of the River', Davies' take on Edgar Wallace's Sanders of the River) but the films are still a delight for those who like old animation. I recently received some images of the old studio, which I'll post along with some details of its output, but if you want a copy of the DVD, which also includes a silent French version of 'Steve in Bohemia' entitled 'Bal Costume' as a bonus, send a cheque or PO payable to G. L. Newnham, 22 Warren Place, Calmore, Southampton SO40 2SD. The cost is £12.75 including UK postage.

The latest issue of Book and Magazine Collector (#299, October 2008) has an excellent article of Frank Humphris, artist of numerous strips and illustrator of many books, probably best known for his strips 'Riders of the Range' and 'Blackbow the Cheyenne' in Eagle. A while back I had the opportunity to photograph a few original pages of Blackbow and above is an example from Eagle v.16 no.46.

The new issue of Comics International (#206, August 2008) is now in comic shops and features a nice long piece on strips based on the Gerry Anderson TV shows Supercar and Stingray, my tribute to the late Mike Western and lots, lots more. The last couple of years have seen CI stumble from issue to issue and, whilst the contents have seen some innovations since Mike Conroy took over as editor, the schedule has been all over the place: #201 (Apr 2007), #202 (Jun 2007), #203 (Aug 2007), #204 (Nov 2007), #205 (Feb 2008) and the latest issue, #206 (Aug). Six issues in 21 months.

Inside, a gremlin seems to be at work with regards to Shaqui Le Vesconte's Anderson series: on page 108, the back issues advert reveals (wrongly) that part 1 of the series appeared in issue 204; the latest episode says (correctly) that it is part 2 (p.76); and the Coming Attractions advert (p.103) tells us episode 5 will be appearing next in issue... 206. Picky, picky... I know. I wouldn't have mentioned it if, ironically, Mike Conroy's editorial column hadn't been all about continuity.

Saw my first copy of Against All Odds: War Picture Library Vol. 2 at ACE Comics on Saturday. A fine looking volume. Amazon have had one five star review in from a 'Big Jim' who says: "I was regaling my son only a couple of weeks ago of how I would wait for the War and Battle picture libraries Summer specials to take on holidays and how they would hold me enthralled for hours and of course we all were able to go out and fight pretend battles of our own. I preferred these comics to the slightly more staid Commando books but devour all of them as well as the weekly doses of Victor, Hotspur and the Eagle. Ah those were the days....and by the way my son loves these as well. Achtung Schweinhund! Indeed."

Five stars! And you wouldn't want to argue with someone called 'Big Jim'. Amazon have copies in stock and I'll repost the contents of the volume below.

Comic Cuts

I have a few bits of news that I'll try to wrap up quickly so you can get on with the final episode of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Hope you've all enjoyed this... and for fans of "Eagles Over the Western Front", don't panic—Harry will be back on Monday in another story.

The cold seems to be abating. Good news as I've not been very enthusiastic about doing any work for a few days and the clean-up on the latest book has been crawling along at a snail's pace. I did get some additional scanning done but I've not written anything longer than an e-mail all week.

Talking of which, I've had my usual bizarre selection of e-mails this week, everything from the usual "how much is this worth" kind of thing to friendly contacts with relatives of some of the people I've written about here on Bear Alley over the years. These are always exciting as there's a chance of getting fresh information—the lifeblood of Bear Alley. I'd love to get more insight into the people I write about; lists of work are just the bare bones of a career and don't tell you much about the people themselves, which is why I always welcome comments from colleagues and family.

I also heard from someone who wants to challenge the information on an author's date of birth listed at the Library of Congress based on evidence they found here on BA (it's the piece I wrote on Hal Dunning, if you're interested). I'm going to have to be doubly careful about the information I present from hereon.

The post this week has also brought in new articles by Jeremy Briggs and Gordon Howsden, so I'll be posting those shortly. Hopefully I'll also get a chance to write up some notes on a couple of people myself once I get back into the swing of working a full day.

I heard from Rob van Bavel, publisher of Don Lawrence Collection, who has been working hard these past few months on the relaunched Eppo Stripblad. Rob has just published a new Storm album (the 24th) in Dutch and I took the opportunity to ask him what his plans were for upcoming English-language editions. He tells me that, if things work out, we'll be putting together the next two volumes for publication in October or November. There will also be a third Legacy book of Don Lawrence's sketches when he has the time and—the one some of you have been waiting for—Olac the Gladiator is still on the books. But not for this year. Probably 2010.

My own publishing plans are creeping forward and I'll hopefully have an announcement shortly.

Long-time readers will know I'm a bit of a Roland Davies fan. I've was sent some original strips by Davies recently but I've no idea where they appeared. The main character is one Berty Bantam, who seems to get involved in different adventures. The first (as can be seen above) is set in the Wild West, the second was entitled "Berty Bantam and the case of the Howling Hound", a Sherlockian mystery story featuring Leghorn Soames, and the third was entitled "Berty Bantam in The Bohemians" and was set in the artists' quarter of Paris. They were initially signed with the initials RD and, from episode 4, ROD (for Roland Oxford Davies). But where on earth were they published? Any help would be appreciated.

(* The column header is a Look and Learn cover by Ron Embleton that I cleaned up recently; it's just too good not to share. Artwork © Look and Learn Ltd.)

Swift Annual Artists & Authors

The following is a list of all the artists and authors known to have contributed to Swift Annual; the names were mostly derived from credits in the annuals themselves with one or two uncredited artists also named, a total of 156 artists and 134 authors.

You will note that not all the artists/authors have been covered. The reasons for this are (a) some names are already well known and information can easily be found elsewhere; (b) some are so obscure that I've not been able to find anything at all; (c) I'm still researching; or (d) have plans to put something up at a later date here or elsewhere.

ARTISTS

Tom Adams
Martin Aitchison
G. William Backhouse
Laurence Bagley
Kay Baker
Barcilon
Carol Barker
George Bass
Younge Bateman [see John Yunge-Bateman]
Isobel Beard
Harold Beards
Frank Bellamy
Giorgio Bellavitis
Douglas Berry
Victor Bertoglio
Harry Bishop
Ursula Blau
Hilda Boswell
George Bowe
Eileen Bradpiece
Monica Brailey
Ronald Brett
John Brinkley
John Canning
John Chamberlain
Mike Charlton
Neville Colvin
Harold Connolly
John Cooper
Evelyn Cuthbertson
Eric Dadswell
Gordon Davies
Roland Davies
Pamela Degil
Ian Dickson
C. L. Doughty
Serge Drigin
K. A. Evans
Kay Ewen
Audrey Fawkes (see note under Audrey Fawley)
Audrey Fawley
Finlayson
Walkden Fisher
Jill Francksen
Terry Freeman
Roland Fiddy
George Fry
Len Fullerton
W. J. Gale
Michael Gibson
Grace Golden
Lesley Gordon
Bernard Greenbaum
Raymond Groves
John Harris
Frank Haseler
Racey Helps
Elizabeth Hobson
James Holdaway
Joyce Horn
Laurence Houghton
Gerald Haylock
Robert Hodgson
Beryl Irving
Peter Jackson
Jenkinson
Richard Jennings
Alan Jessett
R. W. Jobson
Eric Kincaid
Mary Kirkham
T. S. La Fontaine
George Lane
Derek Latymer-Sayer [see Derrick Latimer Sayer]
Don Lawrence
Harry Lindfield
Barry R. Linklater
Gerald Lipman
Robert McGillivray
Dennis Mallet
Roy McAdorey
Mary McGowan
Phil Meigh
W. H. (Bill) Mevin
Joan Milroy
Pamela Neads
Pat Nevin
Frank Newnham
Will Nickless
John Nunney (short note here)
R. E. Oakshott
Cecil Orr
Leslie Otway
Arthur Oxenham
Walter Pannett
Ann (or Anne) Parker
R. E. Parlett
Jon Peaty
Harry Pettit
Michael Peyton
W. F. Phillipps
Dudley Pout
David Pratt
F. Purcell
Daphne H. Ralphs
J. G. Raw
Vic Reed
Renault
Basil Reynolds
Arthur Roberts
Joan Roberts
Lunt Roberts
Edward Robertson
Daphne Rowles
John Ryan
Norman Satchel
W. Savage
Derek Latimer Sayer
Prudence Seward
Brenda Meredith Seymour
A. Burgess Sharrocks
Raymond Sheppard
Rupert Smith
Glenn Steward
H. Tamblyn-Watts
Eric Tansley
Bernard Taylor
J. W. Taylor
Valerie Taylor
Norman Thelwell
Joan Thompson
I. Timyn
Stuart Tresilian
Patricia Turner
Van
Jenetta Vise
Eric Wade
Desmond Walduck
David Walsh
John Millar Watt
C. K. Webb
Bill White
Brian White
A. R. Whitear
Geoffrey Whittam
Norman Williams
Roy Williams
Andrew J. Wilson
Maurice Wilson
Wimsey
Bruce C. Windo
H. R. A. Winslade
Eric Winter
William Wood
John Woods
John Yunge-Bateman

AUTHORS

Garath Adamson
Sylvia Allen
Evan Atkinson
Rowan Ayers
G. William Backhouse
Laurence Bagley
Frank Baker
Kay Baker
John Baldwinson
George Beardmore
Lilian Bedwell
Dilys Beeston
Christine Bernard
Sheila Berry
Kathleen Binns
Geoffrey Bond
Agnes Booth
Jack Borg (Philip Antony Borg)
K. V. R. Bowerman
Richard Bowood (Albert Scott Daniell)
Brian Brason
Rosemary Bromley
Roy F. Brown
Graham L. Bryer
Gerald Bullett
Sybil Burr
Charles Chilton
B. Christie-Murray
Jonathan Clarke
Jasmine Cleaver
J. Clifford
E. Coltman
Peter Cooper
Shirley Curtis
Anthony Davis
Anita Dent
Harry Deverson
Ann / Anne Deveson
C. D. Dimsdale (Rodolphe Louis Megroz)
Rex Dixon (Reginald Alec Martin)
H. Douglas
Denis Duckworth
(Edward) J. Dutton
Rex Edwards
Janet Erskine
K. Evans
Kay Ewen
H. Fisher
Kelman Frost
Rosemary Garland
Michael Gibson
Tony Gibson
Daphne Going
H. Goldman
Lesley Gordon
Pamela Green
Anthony Greenbank
Peter Grey
E. M. (Mick) Hall
R. Harcourt
Betty Harris
James Hemming
Mileson Horton
B. M. Hughes
John Hynam
E. M. Johnson
Margaret Kent
A. J. King
Kenneth King
Penelope Knox
Joanna Latimer
Derek Latymer-Sayer (Derrick Latimer Sayer)
Jocelyn Laurie
Dinah Lawrence
Eric Leyland
Peter Ling
Barbara Livingstone
George Lock
Clifford Makins
Robert Martin
J. B. Mayall
Maud Miller
Hazel Mills
Patricia Mills
Pamela Moore
Sydney Moorhouse
W. H. Morris
John Myers
Muriel G. Nix
R. Ewart Oakeshott
Peter O'Donnell [Wikipedia]
Cecil Orr
E. W. Pasold
Ann Pearce
K. H. Pearce
Sylvia Pike
Noel B. Ranns
Stella Ranns
Moore Raymond
Audrey Ripley-Marshall
Arthur Roberts
Betty Roland
O. M. Rookwood
Carl Routledge
Kay Routledge
Frank Russell
Ivy Russell
Jacqueline Russell
Winifred Scott
Brenda Meredith Seymour
Doreen M. Sharp
Peggy Stack
James Stagg
Herbert Starke
Ben Starr
J. A. Storrie
Malcolm Stuart-Fellows
Alwyn Swift
John W. R. Taylor
R. H. Taylor
Adrian Thomas
Margaret Thomas
Martin Thornhill
Ellen Vincent
Barbara Wace
Desmond Walduck
Phyllis Wasey
Vernon Watkins
Rosemary Weir
Ronald Welch (Ronald Oliver Felton)
F. L. Wellings
Bill Wellings
Peter West
Roger Wilkinson

Modern Wonder Artists and Authors

Modern Wonder was first published 22 May 1937. It was tabloid in format, published weekly with about 20 pages and cost 2d. It was aimed at boys and young men, containing illustrated articles and stories, often action true-life and science fiction. Some stories were lengthy serials. It was later renamed Modern Wonders, but still keeping to the volume and issue numbers and then in March 1940 it became Modern World. The magazine folded 29 March 1941, probably because of newsprint restrictions.

A consistent feature was articles about science and technology and later-on warfare, illustrated by cutaway drawings, often by Leslie Ashwell Wood and Robert Barnard Way. Another artist later to become famous for marine subjects was Kenneth Brooks. The covers and the centrefold were usually in colour, and the interior page illustrations were usually black and white.

The majority of the artists and writers and now quite unknown, alas.

Tony Woolrich

Sources
Wikipedia article about Modern Wonder.
The full issue-by-issue contents listing can be found at the British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index, from where the lists of artists and authors have been extracted.

ILLUSTRATORS

Fred Bennett
Kenneth Brookes
Sinclair Calow
Clarkson
Chester
Jack Cigong
Tom Cotterrell
Roland Davies
G. H. Davis
Laurence Dunn
Gabriel
Bryan de Grineau
Anson Gilchrist
R. A. Hallum
J Harris
Harryin
Cyril Holloway
E. M. Hubbard
Norman Keen
Kirkland
Lendon
Savile Lumley
Hugo Molvig
Patrick Nicolle
Frank Norton
T. D. Ward Osmond
Eric R Parker
Frederick Parker
Charles Pears
Pitts
A. O. Pulford
C. P. Shilton
R. Barnard Way
Leslie Ashwell Wood
John Woods

AUTHORS

The Sheikh A. Abdullah
B. Andrews
Bryan Andrews
Capt. A. R. Archer
Peter Barr
E. J. Barrett
Lewin B. Barringer
W. J. Bassett-Lowke
William Beebe
Theos Bernard
Charles Boff
Andrew R. Boone
Kerslake U. Bourne
Gerald Bowman
William S. Boyce
M. Addison Bright
Vincent Brome
B. H. Bryan
Donald Buchanan
Bernard Buley
Malcolm Burr
Walter E. Burton
Clifford Cameron
George W. Campbell
Gerald Carr
Ritchie Calder
Orestes Caldwell
John Cashel
H. T. Cauldwell, Editor
B. Charles
Herbert Clarkson
Sir Alan J. Cobham
V. E. C.
V. E. Collins
Lee Colton
Rudolph de Cordova
Tom Cottrell
John Cory
Rt. Hon. Sir George Courthorpe
Captain John D. Craig
Harold H. U. Cross
R. J. Dalby
Frank Daugherty
Robert Davy
Harry M. Davis
Henry Deekin
Pierre Devaux
Capt. J. E. Doyle
L. T. Dryver
Alan Duncan
John Edwards
Lieut.-Commander Kenneth Edwards
C. Hamilton Ellis
Leonard Engel
Lewis E. D. Essex
Jack Esten
John Russell Fearn
Clive R. Foster
S. Gibbs
Sterling Gleason
Oliver Gordon
W. P. Gordon
V. Edmund Grimley
Arthur Groom
B. T. H.
B. H.
Prof. J. B. S. Haldane
Ben Hamilton
Edwin Heath
J. M. Henderson
James Henderson
Miles Henslow
William Herbert
Michael Higgins
H. B. Hermon Hodge
Bernard Hogben
F. Ratcliffe Holmes
W. Stanton Hope
Sidney Howard
E. H. Hull
J. Hurren
Geoffrey Hutton
Adrian Jackson
J. E. Jackson
Robert Jamieson
Amy Johnson
Earl Johnson
S. S. Johnson
Bobby Jones
Edwin H. Judd
Waldemar Kaempffert
Roger Kafka
G. Keen
G. S. Keen
Manville Keith
M. Keith
Denys A. Kempson
A. J. Kerr
M. R. Knight
R. Knight
Cecil Knowles
Johnston Lane
Peter Langdale
E. J. H. Lemon
Pierre Leroux
Brigadier-General A. C. Lewin
Barry Lewis
Selby Lewis
Lowell M. Limpus
Louis P. Lochner
John E. Lodge
J. L. Longland
Prof. A. M. Low
B. S. M.
Capt. Norman Macmillan
E. G. Malindine
Louis C. Mansfield
Oscar Marcus
Robert E. Martin
Bower Mason
John Allan May
Bryan S. McCann
H. McDougall
Ralph Machealis
Stuart Macrae
Oscar E. Millard
Prof. H. W. Miller
Noel Mitchell
G. F. Morrell
Hugo Movig
A. J. Murray
J. Murray
S. H. Nelson
Roland Nitsche
Karl Nohle
C. A. O.
Carl Olsson
Hedley O’Mant
Desire Papp
D. E. Parkinson
W. J. Passingham
Ewen K. Patterson
James L. H. Peck
Auguste Piccard
George Poole
Gordon Randall
Alex Raymond
George Renwick
Constance Richardson
John Roberts
Leslie Roberts
T. R. Robinson
Keith Rogers
David Le Roi
Flt.-Lieut. Tommy Rose
Richard Rowland
Peter Royce
Dan Russell
Charles W. A. Scott
Hedley Scott
John Scott
Paul Shishkoff
Kenneth Sibley
Anthony Skene
H. C. Skinner
J. Murray Smith
David Seth-Smith
Vernon Sommerfield
Christopher Sparks
Lord Strabolgi
H. Strange
Ralph Stranger
E. V. Sutton
W. A. Swanberg
William Sydney
Edwin Teale
G. Hamilton Teed
Gordon Temple
Michael Terry
G. H. Thomas
R. T. Thomas
Faulkner Thompson
Dr. Frank Thone
R. Tiltman
Bernard Tunbridge
A. Vincent
W. E. Warrilow
Kenneth L. Waters
Roland Wentzel
A. Gowans Whyte
A. P. Luscombe Whyte
Harold T. Wilkins
Thomas H. Wisdom
Alfred E. Wright
Robert Wyndham
A. E. Wynn
Alec G. Yorke
Alec M. Yorke
Alec Yorke
John A. Zellers
Prof. N. N. Zubov

Boys' World Artists and Authors

Artists and Authors who contributed to Boys' World (1963-64). The following listing does not cover the Boys' World Annual, although an expanded listing can be found in my book Boys' World: Ticket to Adventure.

As with all these lists, I've provided links to various notes on the creators; no link usually means either: (a) there's plenty of information already out there; (b) I've not gotten around to writing them up; or (c) I looked and couldn't find anything.

A. Carney Allan
Angus P. Allan
George Allen
Colin Andrew
Donne Avenell
D. Ball
J. H. Batchelor
Robert Bateman
Leo Baxendale
Barrington J. Bayley
Frank Bellamy (Wikipedia)
J. Benbow
Luis Bermejo (Wikipedia)
Harry Bishop
Brian Blake
Sydney J. Bounds
George Bowe
Charles Bowen
Peter Bruce (see Peter Wallage)
Bernard Buley
C. Bulman
Bob Bunkin
E. H. Burke
John M. Burns (Wikipedia)
C. Maxwell Cade
Percy A. Clarke
Anthony Clarkson
Ian Colman
A. J. Cosser
Graham Coton
E. G. Cowan
Alan Crisp
Roy Cross
Henry Crystall
John Cunningham
Marie Dainton
A. W. Dalby-Phillips
Gino D'Antonio (Wikipedia [Italy])
John Davies
Roland Davies
Anthony Davis
Jon Davis
Leo Davy
Neville Dear
G. de Courcy
Rex Dolphin
J. I. Dopson
Paul Duncan
Jim Edgar
C. F. Eidlestein (see Frank Langford)
Gerry Embleton (Wikipedia)
Ron Embleton (Wikipedia)
Bill Evans
Roland Fiddy
George Fisher
T. Fishlock
D. Fletcher
R. K. Forster
Chris Fowler
Colin Gibson
Giorgio Giorgetti
J. W. Gosden
Anthony Greenbank
D. Greenfield
Arthur Groom
D. Gunston
Thomas Hardie
E. Harper
David C. Harris
Harry Harrison
Gerry Haylock
D. Hodgson
(Miss) D. M. Holdsworth
Laurence Houghton
(Sgt.) Joe Humphrey
Frank Humphris
Artie Jackson
Alan Jessett
George Johnston
Bill Keal
Reg Keep
Henry John Keevill
James Kenner
Eric Kincaid
(Mrs.) F. Kingsford
Bill Lacey
Frank Langford
Don Lawrence (Wikipedia)
Douglas Leach
Brian Lewis
David Lewis (see D. Hodgson)
Harry Lindfield
Paul Lipkowitz
Derek Long
John Ludlow
James E. McConnell
A. G. Maclean
John McLusky (Wikipedia)
Wilfred McNeilly
Bill Mainwaring
R. H. Mason
Ken Mennell
J. R. Milsome
William Mitchell
Elaine Moon
Kenneth Moon
Michael Moorcock
Chris Moore
David R. Motton
C. Murphy
Peter Newark
Will Nickless
Pat Nicolle
G. Norris
Alexander Oliphant
Jose Ortiz (Wikipedia)
Gerald Palmer
A. G. B. Parlett
Reg Parlett (Wikipedia)
Willie Patterson
Frank S. Pepper
Edwin Phillips
Garcia Pizarro
Doris Pocock
N. Powell
George R. Ratcliff
Basil Reynolds
E. L. Rosman
Martin Salvador
Ian Smith
Walter J. Smith
D. R. Stephens
George Stokes
Dick Tatham
Derek Taylor
John W. Taylor
Patricia Taylor
Colin Thomas
Phillip Townsend
Paul Trevillion (Wikipedia)
D. B. Tucker
Tom Tully
Ron Turner
Alf Wallace
Peter Wallage
Alan Ward
Keith Watson (Wikipedia)
G. Wheeler
Paul Wheeler
C. J. White
J. Williams
J. M. Wilson
Harry Winslade
Brian Woodford
P. T. York

Eagle Artists

What follows is a list of artists known to have contributed to Eagle. The comic ran for 987 issues between 1950 and 1969 and with very few official records remaining it is almost inevitable that this list is incomplete. Further information about any of the creators listed below would be very welcome.

Salomon van Abbé (Wikipedia)
Tom Adams
Martin Aitchison (Wikipedia)
D. Alford
Matias Alonso
Gifford Ambler
Colin Andrew
P. J. Ashmore
Robert Ayton
G. William Backhouse
John Batchelor
Frank Bellamy (Wikipedia)
Georgio Bellavitis
Luis Bermejo (Wikipedia)
Harry Bishop
__ Blake
Jesus Blasco [Jesús Blasco] (Wikipedia)
__ Bonner
Wilfred Booth
G. Bowe
Leslie Bowyer
G. Bull
Reg Bunn (Wikipedia)
John M. Burns (Wikipedia)
Geoff Campion
Mike Charlton
Raymond Copeland
Bruce Cornwell
Graham Coton
John Spencer Croft
Roy Cross
Eric Dadswell
Danet, Dubrisay, Genestre
Jack Daniel
Gordon Davies
Roland Davies
C. L. Doughty (Wikipedia)
Laurence Dunn
Eric Eden
__ Ellis
Gerry Embleton (Wikipedia)
Ron Embleton (Wikipedia)
R. W. Escott
Sam Fair
Dennis Fairlie
Roland Fiddy
Walkden Fisher
Victor de la Fuente
__ George
Carl Giles (Wikipedia)
Strom Gould
Frank R. Grey
Frank Hampson (Wikipedia)
Don Harley
John Harris
Gerald Haylock
P. Martinez Henares
Hergé (see Georges Remi)
Geoffrey Hill
Cyril Holloway
Stanley Houghton
Frank Humphris
Robert Hunt
Charles Hurford
Peter Jackson
Alan Jefferson
Richard E. Jennings
Lino Jeva
Harold Johns
Robert Johnston
Peter Kay
Tom Kerr (Wikipedia)
Eric Kincaid
Jack Kirby (Wikipedia)
A. Lake
David Langdon
Don Lawrence (Wikipedia)
Leroi
Brian Lewis
Harry Lindfield
Gerald Lipmann
Frank McDiarmid
Bruce MacDonald
Kenneth McDonough
John McLusky (Wikipedia)
Bill Mainwaring
Terry Maloney
Paul B. Mann
W. P. Mathew
Alfred Mazure
Barrie Mitchell
Webster Murray
Pat Nevin
Will Nickless
R. Nicoll
Jack Nicolle
Pat Nicolle
Alexander Oliphant (short note here)
Jose Ortiz (Wikipedia)
Gerald Palmer
Walter Pannett
Eric R. Parker
Reg Parlett (Wikipedia)
Edwin Phillips
Carlos Pino
Joan Porter (nee Humphries)
Dudley Pout
Peter Probyn
__ Redmill
Georges Remi (Hergé) (Wikipedia)
T. C. Renwick-Adams
Ross (Ron Smith & another artist)
R. Charles Roylance
R. G. Russell
John Ryan (Wikipedia)
Martin Salvador
E. Saunders
Angus Scott
Raymond Sheppard
Ronald Simmons
John S. Smith
Ron Smith (see also Ross)
Nicholas Spargo
Ken Stewart
William Stobbs (Wikipedia)
John Stokes (Wikipedia)
Ferdinando Tacconi (Wikipedia)
John Taylor
Norman Thelwell (Wikipedia)
Jocelyn Thomas
Malcolm Thomkins
__ Thornton
Greta Tomlinson
Paul Trevillion (Wikipedia)
Loredano Ugolini
__ Valentine
Desmond Walduck
David Walsh
Keith Watson (Wikipedia)
Ken Webb
Geoffrey Wheeler
Norman Williams
Pat Williams
Maurice Wilson
Harry Winslade
Leslie Ashwell Wood
M. Wood
John Worsley
Manuel Zatarain

Ranger authors & artists

The following list of creators is derived from the updated index for Ranger The National Boys' Magazine compiled by Steve Holland and David Slinn.The list contains the names of 107 creators who contributed to Ranger and the spin-off Ranger Book.

Albert
Allan Aldous
Richard Armstrong (Wikipedia)
P. J. Ashmore
John Barber
J. H. Batchelor
Robert Bateman
Dino Battaglia (Wikipedia)
Jesus Blasco (Wikipedia)
Ralph Bruce
Jeff Burn
Mike Butterworth (Wikipedia)
Ray Calloway
Geoff Campion (Wikipedia)
Franco Caprioli (Wikipedia [Italy])
Arthur Catherall (Wikipedia)
Fernand Cheneval
Sir Winston Churchill (Wikipedia)
Ray Collins (see Eugénio Zapietro)
Bruce Cornwell
Graham Coton
Thurlow Craig
John Creasey (Wikipedia)
Roy Cross (Wikipedia) [Bear Alley feature]
Terence Cuneo (Wikipedia)
Roland Davies
R. B. Davis (Wikipedia)
Neville Dear
Arturo Del Castillo
Bob de Moor
Sergeant-Major Dickson
C. L. Doughty (Wikipedia)
C. E. Drury
Gerry Embleton (Wikipedia)
Ron Embleton (Wikipedia)
Dan Escott
D. C. Eyles
Fédor (see Fernand Vandenwouwer)
Fernán (see José López Fernández)
José López Fernández
Roland Fiddy [The Independent, obituary]
C. S. Forester (Wikipedia)
Robert Forrest
Pat F. Garrett (Wikipedia)
Guy Gibson (Wikipedia)
Amedeo Gigli
Alberto Giolitti (Wikipedia)
Ruggero Giovannini
George Goldsmith-Carter
René Goscinny (Wikipedia)
Angus Hall
Frank Hampson (Wikipedia)
Wilf Hardy (Wikipedia)
Harry Harrison (Wikipedia)
George Heath
Hermann (see Hermann Huppen)
Stanley Houghton
Mike Hubbard
John Hunter
Hermann Huppen (Wikipedia [France])
Peter Jackson
Harold Johns
Capt. W. E. Johns (Wikipedia)
Bill Lacey
Walter Lambert
Don Lawrence (Wikipedia)
Frank Lea
Left Hand
W. R. Leigh
Harry Lindfield
Angus McBride (Wikipedia)
James E. McConnell (Wikipedia)
Luc Maezelle
Francis Marshall
Somerset Maugham (Wikipedia)
Mazel (see Luc Maezelle)
Colin Merrett
Barrie Mitchell
Will Nickless
Patrick Nicolle
Roy Nockolds
Geoffrey Norris
Michael Ogden
Alexander Oliphant
Theo Page
Eric R. Parker
Oliver Passingham
Frank S. Pepper
Edwin Phillips
Ernest Ratcliff
Wallis Rigby
B. H. Robinson
Carlos Roume
C. M. Russell
John Sanders
George Sanger
Henry Seabright
John S. Smith
Step (Pierre Stephany)
Ferdinando Tacconi (Wikipedia [Italy])
Paul Trevillion (Wikipedia)
Albert Uderzo (Wikipedia)
William Vance (William Van Cutsem) (Wikipedia)
Fernand Vandenwouwer
Bert Vandeput
Julian Vervliet
Fred Walker
Brian Watson
J. Millar Watt (Wikipedia)
R. Caton Woodville (Wikipedia)
John Worsley
Eugénio Zapietro

Lion authors & artists

The following list of creators is derived from the updated index for Lion King of Picture Story Papers compiled by Steve Holland. The list contains the names of 290 creators who contributed to Lion, Lion Holiday Special, Lion & Valiant Holiday Special, Lion Annual or the various spin-off annuals.

Jose Gonzalez Alacreu
Michael Alan
Vincente Alcazar
Mark Aldridge
Angus Allan
Graham Allen
Colin Andrew
P. J. Ashmore
Donne Avenell
John H. Batchelor
Bill Baker
Fred Baker
W. Howard Baker
John Barber
John Barnes (see Peter O’Donnell)
Dino Battaglia
Terry Bave
Leo Baxendale
Barrington Bayley
George Beal
Massimo Belardinelli
H. W. Belfield
Frank Bellamy
Jordi Bernet
John Berry
Alessandro Biffignandi
Derek Birnage
Richard Birnham
Harry Bishop
Jesus Blasco
George Bowe
Eric Bradbury
Leslie Branton
Ray Buckingham
Bob Bunkin
Reg Bunn
John Burns
John M. Burns
Richard Burton
Mike Butterworth
Guido Buzzelli
Renzo Calegari
W. R. Calvert
Geoff Campion
Mario Capaldi
Franco Caprioli
Nino Caroselli
Felix Carrion
G. Casells
John Catchpole
Steve Chapman
Jean-Michel Charlier
John Chester (see A. J. Sullivan)
Reg Clark
Harry Clements (see Frank S. Pepper)
Joe Colquhoun
Dan Colt
Neville Colvin
Harold Connolly
Bruce Cornwell
Sanchis Cortes
Graham Coton
E. George Cowan
Vernon Crick
Carlos Cruz
Francisco Cueto
D. M. Cumming-Skinner
Eric Dadswell
Edwin Dale (see Edward R. Home-Gall)
Sergio D’Amico
F. Daniel
Gino D’Antonio
Roland Davies
Roy Davis
Nigel Dawn
B. F. Deakin
Guy Deakin (see B. F. Deakin)
A. Deam [Miss]
Arthur Deam (see Miss A. Deam)
Neville Dear
Maurice de Bevere
Jose de la Fuente
Ramon de la Fuente
Victor de la Fuente
Jean de Mesmaeker
Arturo Del Castillo
Bob Dexter (see Dave Gregory)
Roberto Diso
John Donnelly
Selby Donnison
C. L. Doughty
Edward Drury
Gerry Embleton
Ron Embleton
D. C. Eyles
Sam Fair
Alfonso Font
A. Forbes
Ronald Forbes
Barry Ford (see Joan Whitford)
John Fordice (see Colin Robertson)
George Forest (see E. George Cowan)
Robert Forrest
Michael Fox
Andre Franquin
G. E. Fredman
Oliver Frey
Kelman Frost
Peter Gallant   
Henry Gamlin
R. Garbutt
Brian Garland
Giorgio De Gaspari
John Gillatt
Alberto Giolitti
Ruggero Giovannini
Peter Glassford
Michael Godfrey
Don J. Gold
Jose Gonzalez
Barry Gordon
Rene Goscinny
Jeff Gould
Gordon Gray
Bernard Greenbaum
David Gregory
Frank Hampson
Derek Hall (see Edward R. Home-Gall)
Leslie Harding
Wilf Hardy
Don Harley
David Harwood
Hayes
Gerry Haylock
George Heath
Eric Hebden
A. W. Henderson
Alex Henderson
J. H. Higgins
Harry Hollinson, D.F.C.
Edward Holmes
Fred Holmes
Edward R. Home-Gall
Bill Hooper
Cliff Hooper (see A. W. Henderson)
James Hooper
Laurence Houghton
Andrew Howat
Trevor Hugh (see B. F. Deakin)
Jack Hunt
Victor Ibanez
George Ireland
Chic Jack
Peter Jackson
Jidéhem (see Jean De Mesmaeker)
Harold Johns
Geoff Jones
Sydney Jordan
N.K.
Harry Kaye
Bill Keal
Gary Keane
Ernest Kearon
Geoff Kemp
Ian Kennedy
Tom Kerr
Eric Kincaid
Rex King (see A. W. Henderson)
Brian Knight
Derek Knight (see Peter O’Donnell)
Ronald Knill
Bill Lacey
Tom Laidler
Harold Lamb
Don Lawrence
Frank Lazenby
Garry Leach
Joseph Lee
Brian Leigh (see E. George Cowan)
Roy Leighton (see A. W. Henderson)
Dino Leonetti
Brian Lewis
Cliff Lewis
Les Lilley
Harry Lindfield
Barrie R. Linklater
F. Solano Lopez
Christopher Lowder
Jock McCail
James E. McConnell
Bruce MacDonald
Ernest L. McKeag
Denis McLoughlin
John McLusky
Wilfred McNeilly
Bill Mainwaring
James Malcolm
Alfredo Marcuzzi
Ray Marr (see Wilfred McNeilly)
Bruno Marrafa
John Marshall (see Frank S. Pepper)
Josep Marti
Arthur Martin
Roger Mas (see Roger Masmonteil)
Roger Masmonteil
Fortunino Matania
Duncan Matheson (see D. M. Cumming-Skinner)
Jack Maxwell (see Ernest L. McKeag)
Brian Mead (see Miss A. Deam)
Phillip Mendoza
Ian Mennell
Ken Mennell
Colin Merrett
Phil Millar
Pat Mills
Barrie Mitchell
Jorge Moliterni
Jack Monk
Michael Moorcock
Charles Morgan
Morris (see Maurice de Bevere)
John Mortimer
David Motton
Jose Munoz
Angel Nadal
Barry Nelson (see R. G. Thomas)
Patrick Nicolle
Erio Nicolo
Victor Norman (see E. L. Rosman)
Peter O’Donnell
Brian O’Hanlon
Hedley O’Mant
Kevin O’Neill
Jose Ortiz
Colin Page
Jack Pamby
Eric R. Parker
Reg Parlett
Oliver Passingham
Terry Patrick
Willie Patterson
Jordi Penalva
Frank S. Pepper
F. A. Philpott
Carlos Pino
Angelo Platania
Renato Polese
Allen Pollack
Hugo Pratt
Cyril Price
Roger Protz
Frank Purcell
Miguel Quesada
Juan Rafart
Leo Rawlings
Antoine Raymond
Frank Redpath
Ken Reid
Edmond Ripol
Colin Robertson
Robert Rodger
E. L. Rosman
Mark Ross (see A. J. Sullivan)
Carlos Roume
R. Charles Roylance
Sampedro
Peter Sarson
Antonio Sciotti
Hedley Scott (see Hedley O’Mant)
Keith Shone
Jerry Siegel
Gwen Simmons
Ronald Simmons
Edgar Sinclair
David Slinn
Bernard Smith
Frederick E. Smith
John S. Smith
David Sque
Tom Stirling (see E. L. Rosman)
John Stokes
Alan Stranks
A. J. Sullivan
Rodney Sutton
Ferdinando Tacconi
H. Tamblyn-Watt
Hugh Tempest
R. G. Thomas
T. G. Thursby
Giovanni Ticci
Barrie Tomlinson
Malcolm Tompkins
Paul Trevillion
Giorgio Trevisan
Tom Tully
Albert Uderzo
Loredano Ugolini
Clive Uptton
Adolfo Usero
Bert Vandeput
John Vernon
Vicq (see Antoine Raymond)
Julio Vivas
John Wagner
Alf Wallace
Brian Watson
Keith Watson
Albert Weinberg
Vince Wernham
Mike Western
Bill White
Mike White
Whitefield
Joan Whitford
F. A. Williams
Peter Williams
Neville Wilson
Hal Wilton (see Frank S. Pepper)   
Frank Winsor (see Derek Birnage)
John Woods
Reg Wootton
Dudley Wynn
Nevio Zeccara