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

40 who introduced me to Joe Kubert. Working with Joe was, indeed, a pleasure. He is easy to respect as a man, and as an artist. We worked together for about a year, during which time I did numerous stories and covers for the war titles that Joe was editing. However, it became apparent that the technique I was employing was too labour intensive and counter-productive to the way American comics are produced. I was used to working for UK comics where colour is not much used, so my cross hatching and mechanical tints resulted in a muddied look when colour was added. I could not make this work pay, and found myself unwilling to adapt my own technique to the simplified lighting approach this medium required. The great EC horror comic witch-hunt of the ‘50s in the US, was pursued with equal fury inBritain. Living inLondon at the time I remember the outcry on TV, radio and the newspapers. American comics are widely distributed Barr was in a league of his own when it came to portraying the whole panoply of Nazi regalia. FACING PAGE: Restraint was never part of the equation as this example from 1964 amply demonstrates.