20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Instalment 3 (TWO pages) (Originals)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Instalment 3 (TWO pages) (Originals)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Instalment 3 (TWO pages) (Originals)
Artist: Bill Baker Medium: Pen & Inks on Acid-free Paper Size: 14" x 18" (350mm x 450mm) Date: 1975 Code: Baker20000Inst3-1
These are the unique original Pen & Ink drawings by Bill Baker.
2 original ink pages drawn by Bill Baker for 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, originally written by Jules Verne, published in the British comic Look & Learn in 1975 and re-issued in The Lion Annual, 1981.
Bill Baker was a powerhouse of creativity having illustrated a huge number of adaptations for British comics including Don Quixote, Call of The Wild, The Prince and The Pauper and of course, King Solomon's Mines.
Bill Baker Bill Baker is something of a mystery artist. Although it is possible to track his work through various comics over a twenty-year period, very little is known about the artist himself. He first appears with one-off stories in Top Spot, followed by a brief serial, New Rider at Clearwater, and illustrations for Girl in 1960-64. He remained active in girls' papers for the next decade, contributing to Tina (Two on Cockatoo) Princess Tina (Life with Tina), June (Call Me Cupid, Wedding in the Family) and Pixie Annual.
In 1974 he produced his first literary adaptation for Look and Learn, based on Jack London's The Call of the Wild. This was followed in quick succession by The Sea Wolf (London, 1974-75), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne, 1975), Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes, 1975), The Prince and the Pauper (Mark Twain, 1976), Moby Dick (Herman Melville, 1977), Westward Ho! (Charles Kingsley, 1977), A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens, 1977-78) and King Solomon's Mines (H. Rider Haggard, 1978).
It was during the publication of the latter – in August 1978 – that Baker disappeared from the pages of Look and Learn, the strip taken over with episode nine by C. L. Doughty.
Artist: Bill BakerMedium: Pen & Ink on BoardSize: 12" x 17" (300mm x 420mm)Date: 1974Code: BakerCall34This is the unique original Pen & Ink drawing by...
Artist: Wilf HardyMedium: Gouache on Acid-free BoardSize: 14" x 18" (358mm x 445mm)Date: 1979Signature: Signed by artist in paint underneath the subm...
Artist: Wilf HardyMedium: Watercolour on BoardSize: 9" x 13" (240mm x 320mm)Date: 1974Signature: Signed by artist bottom leftCode: HardyPolarisThis i...