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

47 of my life! However, to everyone’s great surprise, I survived. After that it was just general school, went to the secondary school locally, just another three hundred yards from home and I left school when I was fifteen. Fourteen and a half - I tell a lie! PR: But presumably somewhere you must have picked up a pencil. GL: I did, I did. I picked up a pencil and I drew—I copied. My mother purchased, from some eager salesman at the door, copies of Hutchinson’s Pictorials of the War. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen them or heard of them, but they are hard backed books, I have the same six my mother bought, I could have only been about seven or eight years old. I’m sitting here looking at them. She could only afford to buy the first six in stock and they grew quite invaluable to me. They cover World War 1 and between the wars and they’re very, very good as reference books and I’ve still got them. She bought them in 1941 so they’re over sixty years old. Both my mother and father have