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Jimmy Screw wrote:I am certainly aware of the Dick Emery/Airfix advertisements but, looking back now, can anyone confirm that Dick Emery was actually an Airfix enthusiast?
I'm pretty sure that in an interview in the 1970's he did say his hobby was building model aircraft. However, I understand the comments on the Airfix club pages were written by an IPC editor, with Dick's permission.
Great to finally learn the name, Tom Kerr, the artist of those anti-smoking comics of the 1960s. I believe that Frank Langford did a lot of strip adverts and later on in the 1980s a lot of the comic strip adverts were done, brilliantly, by John Richardson. John was perhaps best known for his Super CC comic-strip in Custom Car Magazine. He once drew a newspaper strip - Amanda for The SUN in 1976 and strips in TIGER and 2000 AD- Mean Arena. I had the pleasure to meet John in 1982, he was a very down-to- earth and friendly guy who could tell jokes all evening.
He told me how he mastered a 'Frank Bellamy' style only to find that it did not help him land the 'GARTH' newspaper strip. In 1982 he was awarded the Best Humour Cartoonist Award by the Society of Strip Illustration.
Another advert done as a strip was Inchman which appeared in full colour on the back covers of Smash, Valiant, etc in the late sixties. I'd better quickly explain that Inchman was an inch high, and was used to promote Dinky Toys!
Speaking of ads, it's been 40 years since Fleetway launched their Super Libraries. Scanned an ad for them here: http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/
