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

5 paintings like Piccaso’s Guernica and Goya’s The Third of May have such enduring legacies. Art helps us understand the world around us, comprehend the past and shine a light on what’s to come next. When I describe what I do, I’m regularly met with the reply “Is Commando still going? I used to love reading it” which is part of the perils of working on a heritage brand. In my past two years as Editor-in-Chief (General, if you will!) we’ve made some changes to ensure that we can continue to deliver a comic that our readers love. The team regularly attend comic events across the UK, we’ve published our first-ever graphic novel Commando Presents Ramsey’s Raiders , produced a celebration of cover artist Ian Kennedy’s work, The Art of Ian Kennedy , and published our first female writers in 30 years. This isn’t possible without an enduring readership and the talents and knowledge of the artists, writers and editors who work on every issue. With the accolade of ‘Britain’s longest-running war comic’, and a 60 th anniversary around the corner, it’s more important than ever to work with the world’s finest illustrators and writers to keep www.commandocomics.com £14.99 C O M I C S P R E S E N T S P R E S E N T S the first time in its 57-year tory, Commando presents a colour graphic novel! italising its original ck-and-white pocket-sized rior artwork with losions of colour, and wing it up to a full-sized phic novel format, we’ve lected the first two issues of classic Ramsey’s Raiders ic series about a rag-tag m of maverick soldiers rating behind enemy lines! by the roguish Captain es Ramsey, the Raiders are otley bunch: two Scotsmen, Englishman, a Welshman, Irishman, and an stralian. They play by their n rules and are good at ir job — very good — so the rmans have every reason to r Ramsey’s Raiders! y’re back… this time in rman-held Sicily! en their jeeps are troyed, they’ll show the zis that a captured German ff car can make an equally ective — and deadly — form ransport! THE RAG‑TAG TEAM OF MAVERICK SOLDIERS RETURN IN COMMANDO’S FIRST‑EVER GRAPHIC NOVEL IN FULL COLOUR! _281118.indd 1 05/11/2018 09: