Another old timer has passed on.

[Leslie BT]

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/

[pbeccas (Paul)]

That's sad.  Commando comic cover artwork is so iconic.

[Big Mike]

Images from my childhood, along with Airfix magazine and the those b/w war films!
How times have changed.
Mike

[Leman (Andy)]

Ah, the good old days, when it was ok to hate foreigners. Thank goodness we've moved on.........oh, hang on a minute.

[martin goddard]

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

[Colonel Kilgore]

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 

Simon

[martin goddard]

Outrage Simon.
You lost "Captain Steel's adventures behind enemy lines".
Teachers huh


martin

[Colonel Kilgore]

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

[Panzer21]

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 ☺

[Bankinista]

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