EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 13 © 2015 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

35 FACING PAGE: Two of the many fabulous artworks that Scott created for boy's comics throughout the 1950s. His work for commissioning editor Leonard Matthews was the stuff of legend. ABOVE: Scott advertising art from the 1930s. a gentleman in tweeds smoking a pipe during a game of golf. The poster was signed “Sep E. Scott” and I thought it was brilliant. I remember often gazing at that poster in utter admiration at the way this artist, Sep E. Scott, used paint. And then all of a sudden there he was in my favourite comic, Knockout , drawing a pirate serial strip called ‘Captain Flame’! I couldn’t believe it. The strip first appeared in the comic on the 6th November 1948 but it had been heralded the week previously with a blast of