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

58 nobody’s told me”. He was very amused by this, he didn’t give me an increase in wages but he thought it was very funny. And that was it. What started off as a very tentative arrangement, just became routine when they realised I wasn’t going to spend all my time on the golf course. PR: But this tentative arrangement became all consuming… GL: It did, it did, it swallowed me up. I was working at home for two years before I was married. I got married when I was 25. We bought a bungalow, it wasn’t terribly big, I’ve since enlarged it. I had a table on which I worked and it was piled up with all my junk and it had to be tidied away if people came in because it was in the dining room in the house. And as the years went by I saw the local children grow up, move on to other schools, get married have children. But by this time I didn’t see their children because I was working in a shed at the back of the house. I remember one November morning I Pages from 'Zero Feet', published in August 1963 the story was a visual tour-de-force for Gordon Livingstone. Adhering to the editorial guidelines for accuracy (a constant bone of contention for much of the overseas sourced art) he nevertheless injected the story with his own stamp, making extensive use of zipatone and conveying a great sense of locale and atmosphere.