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

2 Mick Brownfield Peter Richardson talks to one of the UK’s most successful and consistently inventive illustrators about his career and the insecurities that drive his creativity. PR. Looking back, would you say that you always wanted to be an illustrator? MB. I did but I wasn’t quite sure what it was. I had a distant relative who was a commercial artist. I wasn’t really aware of the mechanics of what was going on but he could draw really well. He could draw Red Indians. I’d heard the words in films as well—commercial art. I wanted to draw but I knew I wouldn’t make a living as a painter or whatever. It was something that was always in the back of my mind. I always felt the urge towards the commercial subjects. PR. When you were growing up did you have heroes in illustration and comic ABOVE: Groucho Disguise Outfit for Portal Publications. 1980. ABOVE RIGHT: W. C. Fields for Portal publications 1980. FACING PAGE: ‘Call Centre’ illustration for Reader’s Digest magazine.

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