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

39 450-500 cover paintings for the company. In short, the bulk of artwork necessary for an artist to slowly develop his drawing and technique. It is DC Thomson’s policy to recruit its artists from Scotland, and to encourage and inspire them with good pay and ample work, instead of competing for the world’s illustrators. With my American wife Kathy, whom I met while on holiday in the US in 1966, I settled in Bergen County, New Jersey. Unfamiliar with the illustration market in the US, I fell back on advertising and studio art until I was able to locate sources of illustration. Earnings for an artist in the US are incredibly superior to Europe, and advertising art paid so well that I delayed, somewhat, my efforts to seek story illustration. The comic book field had a nostalgic appeal for me, and I was directed by a friend of a friend to Carmine Infantino of National Periodical Publications,