EXTRACTS: The Art of Ron Embleton (illustrators special) © 2018 The Book Palace (144 PAGES in Full edition)

137 Moving on to TV Century 21 in 1965, Ron began to draw and paint in strip form Gerry Anderson’s T.V. puppet creations, Stingray and Captain Scarlet , and, despite his self-confessed lack of enthusiasm for the project, he managed to convey not only excitement but a genuine sense of awe and wonder. Such was the scope of Ron's art that he could contribute to magazines with a very wide age range, two examples being Once Upon a Time and Look and Learn. Ron became a major contributor to both. For Once Upon a Time , a paper for very young readers, he showed himself adept at portraying fairy tale fantasy but it was for Look and Learn , the educational magazine for older children, that Ron did some of his very best work. Apart from his many fine story illustrations and full-colour FACING PAGE LEFT: Johnny Frog from Eagle comic 1964, which was another of the artist's personal favourites from the period. ABOVE: Unidentified drawing for a text story circa 1964. In both examples Ron's strong sense of tone and dramatic lighting provide an excellent foil to his storytelling strengths. OVERLEAF: A return to Roger's Rangers as Ron undertook work on a new series devoted to one of his favourite subjects in the pages of Look and Learn published in 1974.