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

94 Commando 3046, 'Hot on the Trail' from May 1997, complete with one of Ian's bespectacled Nazi officers. one am delighted that he has entered this world as he is now able to feel the respect and the admiration which he and his work have engendered amongst comics readers. As one of a generation of illustrators whose names were initially unknown and who had little direct contact with their public, it has come as a pleasant revelation to him, one I know he regrets some of his late contemporaries did not have. If it weren’t for a comic event in Dundee, he’d never have met, for instance, his namesake Cam (his little brother, as he calls him) despite their work appearing in the same publications for decades. So, should you be at a Comic Con and you speak to Ian, turn the tables for me and ask him, “What was it like to work with Calum Laird?” On second thoughts, don’t…he might tell you! ●