EXTRACTS: The Art of Commando (illustrators special) © 2019 The Book Palace (144 PAGES in Full edition)

25 The City of Glasgow on the River Clyde, industrial inferno of two million of her majesty’s subjects and sulking sister of prettier, festive Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital, has all the aesthetic appeal and baroque splendour of Pittsburgh or Newark. And in the 1930s, besides the spectre of unemployment, was embarrassed by grime, slums, and an unenviable reputation as host for the infamous ‘Razor Gangs’. My father, who had been with the Red Cross in World War 1, and whose army service consisted of gathering and identifying the debris of military In 1972 he penned the following brief autobiography for Bill Wilson’s fanzine The Collector . It’s a fine piece of writing and remains the best account of his formative years to appear in print. ●