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

53 Anyway that was the very early days and I did my two years drawing and I was gently weaned into the children’s stuff and the ladies' magazines like Secrets, My Weekly, The People’s Friend. The People’s Friend ! My goodness me—a bastion of DC Thomson if ever there was. And they allowed me to do these little drawings with which they seemed to be well content and then her Majesty called and a brown envelope arrived through the door and said, “Your Queen… Your King—My God! It was King and Country. The old King died when he was still in harness and Princess Elizabeth as she was, who was in Kenya at the time was made aware of her father’s demise and came home. So I had the privilege of serving under two monarchs in two years. PR: Isn’t that exceptional? GL: Anyway I did my army service. Did the standard Aldershot for two weeks and went down to Yeovil. Borden! You probably didn’t know about Borden, it’s up near Yeovil, it was the RAFC depot. Down in Somerset, I Text continues on page 56