EXTRACTS: Illustrators Issue 5 © 2013 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

8 MB. Yes I did. I got an agent the same year—1973 . I was recommended to an agent called Wendy Booth, in Garrick Street and there was a studio there where Ian Beck was working, Glyn Boyde Hart and a couple of other people. So I joined up with them although I never actually worked there. So I stayed with those guys up until the Jenni Stone period. PR. So that period takes you through the seventies. It was you building up a reputation. MB. Well I think I built it up very quickly. I was being asked to lecture and teach within a couple of years of going freelance. I’ve always been very lucky in getting quite high profile jobs to do, always done lots of magazines and covers and work that people see. Other people have careers—quite splendid careers doing work that never sees the light of day. Whereas I’ve done hundreds of Time Out covers and I’ve always liked that, I’ve always loved to have the most covers out that week. I’ve always been terribly competitive in that way. PR. I remember one Time Out cover you did, because you were doing so many of them you did them several weeks running, when the film ‘ Alien’ ABOVE: A beautifully perverse depiction of ‘Prince’ for The Sunday Times Magazine . ABOVE RIGHT AND FACING PAGE: Two consecutive weeks of Brownfield Time Out covers enabled the artist to pull off one of his most impressive coups, when he depicted Ridley Scott’s newly released ‘Alien’ bursting through the previous week’s ‘Quatermass’ cover. Text continues on page 12