EXTRACTS: The Art of Ron Embleton (illustrators special) © 2018 The Book Palace (144 PAGES in Full edition)

3 Ron Embleton’s work seemed ubiquitous when I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s—his finely rendered, yet earthily dynamic art appeared in comics, book covers and even the back of cereal packets. He single-handedly wrote and painted an epic two-page weekly comic strip titled Wulf the Briton , a feat which is all the more astonishing when one considers that Frank Hampson studio with its team of artists was struggling to achieve an equivalent work-flow with Dan Dare. When Gerry Anderson’s Stingray and Captain Scarlet puppets were holding TV, audiences spellbound it was Ron’s comic strip adaptations that powered their adventures into new levels of excitement that far exceeded the limitations of televisual animatronics. A fact that was not lost on the Anderson team who commissioned Ron to design the Stingray logo as well as produce the title