Tony Harding RIP

[colcool007]

Lew's blog carries the sad news that Tony Harding has died. Another great gone from our midst.

[Digifiend]

Looks like he found out from Down the Tubes, which he linked to: http://downthetubes.net/?p=14136

[johnfreeman96]

Looks like he found out from Down the Tubes, which he linked to: http://downthetubes.net/?p=14136

I have now published a fantastic tribute to him from his son: http://downthetubes.net/?p=14204

[colcool007]

That is a rather nice tribute by Anthony about his father.

[Lew Stringer]

Looks like he found out from Down the Tubes, which he linked to: http://downthetubes.net/?p=14136

I have now published a fantastic tribute to him from his son: http://downthetubes.net/?p=14204

Excellent tribute, and what a great photo of Tony Harding with Barrie Mitchell.

[Kashgar]

I remember Tony from when he drew Cracker Craine
In Buster in 1967 which I think was the only football
strip ever to appear in the comic.
He didn't draw Wonder Man in the early Victor though.
That was Jean Merie.

[colcool007]

I remember Tony from when he drew Cracker Craine
In Buster in 1967 which I think was the only football
strip ever to appear in the comic.
He didn't draw Wonder Man in the early Victor though.
That was Jean Merie.

Was that the serial in the first issues of the Victor? Plus, was he the one that drew The Last Six Hundred. This was a serial where the growth of plants and animals had gone wild. And the last 600 people were in a remote Cornish (?) village and they had to make do with what was left thanks to the last educated man, the schoolteacher.

If not, I would be curious to know who did draw The Last Six Hundred.

[Kashgar]

It was Jean Merie Col.

[Raven]

I remember Tony from when he drew Cracker Craine
In Buster in 1967 which I think was the only football strip ever to appear in the comic.

There was also The Wizard of Football and Drifter Long, Football Wanderer in the early Seventies.

[johnfreeman96]

It was Jean Merie Col.

Who also drew "Wonder Man" originally, I think?

[Kashgar]

Hi John. Jean Merie or Yvan Marie was the
original artist. Thomsons spelt the Belgian
artists name both ways depending who you
asked.