Andrew Wilson biography

Andrew J Wilson (flourished 1960s - 1970s)

Andrew J. Wilson is a British comic book artist, whose work has mainly appeared in Fleetway's weekly comics for girls during the 1960s and 1970s. His best known strip was 'The Happy Days', that ran in Princess (1960-1967) and Princess Tina (1967-1973). Some stories were reprinted in Girl (1964) and Pixie (1973). He also made 'Lassie Come Home' for Princess Tina in 1968-69.

By the late 1970s, Wilson reappeared at Fleetway and contributed to Buster, taking over 'The Runaways' from Joe Colquhoun and creating 'The Byrds of Paradise Isle' (1978-1980) and 'Johnny's Journey' (1980), which are his last known work.

One of the centrepieces of the girls' comic Princess was the strip 'The Happy Days'. This hugely popular strip was the combined work of Mike & Jenny Butterworth on scripts and Andrew Wilson on art. The light-hearted family adventures of the strip's heroine, Sue Day, carried the strip through the amalgamation of Princess with Tina in 1967 and eventually it ran for 13 years before finally coming to an end in 1973.

For nearly the whole run, the artist was Andrew J. Wilson whose loose, flowing style is not to be mistaken for the other Sue Day artist, whose work – stylistically similar to the artwork of W. Bryce-Hamilton – appeared in the Princess Picture Library and who occasionally filled-in for Wilson on the main weekly strip.
Source: Steve Holland; Illustration Art Gallery

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