EXTRACTS: Illustrators Issue 5 © 2013 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

43 LEFT: The finished Mad Men painting created from a sketch made by Matthew Weiner, and a collection of photographic reference supplied by the programme makers to ensure period accuracy, depicting Don Draper, the show’s lead character experiencing a ‘doppelgänger’ moment on a New York City sidewalk. © AMC Network Entertainment LLC. Brian Sanders was a judoka at The Budokwai in the west end of London, and I was a judoka atThe Judokan in Hammersmith. Fortunately, we never met on a judo mat, but on the carpet in my office at Woman’s Mirror, when I commissioned him to illustrate a ten-part romantic serial for the magazine. It was in the mid 1960s, and Sanders was part of a new breed of upcoming illustrators, who worked out of a studio at Artist Partners; an agency which was run on the lines of the famous Charles E. Cooper Studios in New York City. If we’d had a crystal ball, we could have looked forward to the end of 2012. Matthew Weiner, the creator of Mad Men , the celebrated television series, set in the art- directed world of 1960s American advertising, decided to market the sixth series in the style of a 1960s ad man, and remembering the painterly illustrations used on Trans World Airlines flight menus, started a search for an illustrator who could create an image with the same look. He saw the illustration that I had commissioned from Sanders for the first part of the romantic serial which was set inNewYork City. He also saw a selection of Sanders’ work covering nearly four decades of his career that I had produced for Leif Peng’s Today’s Inspiration illustration blog, and decided that Sanders was the man for the job, and asked him to work in his sixties style to create a series of illustrations. Educated at St Olave’s Grammar School, which then stood at the foot of London’s Tower Bridge, Sanders spent much of his final year life drawing and painting at the Sir John Cass College of Art, less than a mile away on