EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 30 © 2020 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

4 Before you began working for the pulp magazines, you were working at Neeley Associates, an illustration studio in New York. What were you doing there exactly? Oh, well, I’d just gotten out of art school. I showed talent when I was two and a half, believe it or not. There are drawings somewhere that I did when I was six or eight, that are pretty good. So I always had a talent that my par‐ ents encouraged. And I always knew that I was going to art school, so I ended up going to Pratt. I graduated in 1950, and I got some very good advice. My father had friends who were commercial artists, and they said, “Don’t go looking for work right away. Go get a job as an apprentice at an illustration studio where you can see pro‐ fessionals work—and how they work—and where you can get information from.” And that’s exactly what I did. I ended getting a job as what they called an apprentice, at a