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

31 Text continues on page 38 knowledge became extremely useful when I found myself working as a World War 2 combat artist. Around 1958, I felt I had acquired enough ability as an illustrator to approach magazine publishers with my cover samples and interior art. That year Peter Hamilton of Nebula Science Fiction , published my first colour cover and story art. I did a few more covers and line art for Nebula (which had debuted in 1952) before the magazine folded in 1960 as a result of the declining health of the publisher. I had also, in 1958, taken the plunge and become a freelance artist, doing mainly advertising, design, lettering, and occasional line art. This kind of work, provided a very good income, and, although I wanted to become a