Artist: Bill Mevin
(biography)Medium: Pen & Ink Wash on Acid-free Board
Size: 13" x 18" (340mm x 450mm)
Date: 1983
Signature: signed by artist, bottom centre of final panel
This is the Signed unique original Pen & Ink Wash by Bill Mevin.This original signed artwork for 'The Amazing Adventures Of Morph' by the great Bill Mevin featured in Pippin in 1983, depicting the gang engaging with troublesome flies.
Morph is a British series of clay stop-motion comedy animations, named after the main character, who is a small terracotta-skinned plasticine man, who speaks an unintelligible language and lives on a tabletop, with his bedroom being a small wooden box. Morph was initially seen interacting with Tony Hart, beginning in 1977, on several of his British television programmes, notably Take Hart, Hartbeat and SMart.
Bill Mevin is a British comic artist and animator. His career spans over half a century in which he mostly created comics based on popular pre-existing cartoon shows and TV series for TV Comic and Pippin. He was most notably one of the early 'Dr. Who' comic artists, and additionally worked on newspaper strips like 'Soapremes' and 'The Perishers' (1992-2006) for the Daily Mail.