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RFCM discussion => Announcements and Shows => Topic started by: Leslie BT on February 10, 2022, 06:21:20 PM

Title: Another old timer has passed on.
Post by: Leslie BT on February 10, 2022, 06:21:20 PM
You may not know the name, but if you're British and you're my age, you will know his art. Ian Kennedy has passed away. Ian started at D. C. Thomson & Co. in 1949 as a trainee illustrator and was still working up to his death. RIP Ian and thanks for all those great comic covers.

He was the artist who created a lot of the artwork for the Commando magazine.

https://www.comics.org/series/10609/covers/
Title: Re: Another old timer has passed on.
Post by: pbeccas (Paul) on February 10, 2022, 10:38:39 PM
That's sad.  Commando comic cover artwork is so iconic.
Title: Re: Another old timer has passed on.
Post by: Big Mike on February 11, 2022, 04:32:00 PM
Images from my childhood, along with Airfix magazine and the those b/w war films!
How times have changed.
Mike
Title: Re: Another old timer has passed on.
Post by: Leman (Andy) on October 10, 2022, 07:19:12 AM
Ah, the good old days, when it was ok to hate foreigners. Thank goodness we've moved on.........oh, hang on a minute.
Title: Re: Another old timer has passed on.
Post by: martin goddard on October 10, 2022, 07:42:02 AM
He must have produced art at a prolific rate.
I really enjoyed those Commando  booklets. They were great.
I think  may of us could lay down the standard template then just colour it in.

e.g. The hero is a maverick or has some special physical attribute such as 3 arms.



martin :)
Title: Re: Another old timer has passed on.
Post by: Colonel Kilgore on October 10, 2022, 07:54:40 AM
Sad news - thanks for sharing, Les.

I remember having my Commando books confiscated and torn up in front of me in class... So I guess they must have been more educational than Biology  :D

Simon
Title: Re: Another old timer has passed on.
Post by: martin goddard on October 10, 2022, 11:22:56 AM
Outrage Simon.
You lost "Captain Steel's adventures behind enemy lines".
Teachers huh >:(


martin :)
Title: Re: Another old timer has passed on.
Post by: Colonel Kilgore on October 10, 2022, 11:45:58 AM
It's OK - I was borrowing my friend's comic books, now I come to think of it :)

I may have said "whoops - sorry..."

Simon
Title: Re: Another old timer has passed on.
Post by: Panzer21 on October 10, 2022, 04:04:20 PM
Quote from: martin goddard on October 10, 2022, 07:42:02 AM
He must have produced art at a prolific rate.
I really enjoyed those Commando  booklets. They were great.
I think  may of us could lay down the standard template then just colour it in.

e.g. The hero is a maverick or has some special physical attribute such as 3 arms.



martin :)

It must also feature Germans saying "actung schweinhund" and Japanese (in thick jam jar bottom specs) saying "Aieeeee!" and " banzai! "
Neil ☺
Title: Re: Another old timer has passed on.
Post by: Bankinista on October 10, 2022, 08:07:29 PM
Many moons ago I spent a fortnight in the Austria mountains with no language other than the German that Commando had taught me. I can't recall how useful "achtung schweinhund", "achtung Spitfire" etc were.

Bankinista
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