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

72 many soldiers I drew for this? A hundred and fourteen! PR: That’s amazing! GL: That is amazing! And he insisted. The attention to detail in the office was something, they’d look at the picture and if they had reference of it they’d say we want it to look like this. Ian Forbes used to say to me there’s no point in giving somebody a reference if they’re not going to use it. He was a stickler for that and I just followed the party line as it were and I think I may have tended to overdo the detail on some things, but I think it may have paid dividends at the end of the day. I don’t know. PR: I think you could say that is an excellent conclusion. Many thanks, Gordon for all your time and input and for giving us such amazing artwork for so many years. ● The final panel from Commando No. 2495, published August 1991. Gordon Livingstone's art, with atmospheric use of zipatone, perfectly captured the creeping unease of Alan Hebden's gripping script.