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

27 We three returned to the rubble in 1945, and found that most of the family had survived. My father, a competent sign-writer, had acquired the account of Red Hackle Scotch Whisky, involving hundreds of signs throughout the city. Since the signs included a warrior in Highland costume, he being no artist, recruited me to illustrate this figure. This I did on numerous occasions until my career as a child prodigy was terminated by the police, the education authorities and irate citizens who were all for lynching him for exploiting a minor. Two years later I left school to commence a six-year apprenticeship with