EXTRACTS: Illustrators Issue 6 © 2013 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

61 LEFT: Coton at his gritty action-packed best as British paratroopers surprise the enemy, from the cover of Battle Picture Library . MAIN PICTURE: The artist’s mastery of action scenes is fully realised in this cover art for an issue of Air Ace Picture Library. after by a spinster aunt, and left very much to their own devices. According to Hilary, “The boys did what the hell they liked!” If a plane came down, or if there was a bombing, the teenage Graham would get on his bike and cycle towards the action. Some of the things he saw were so shocking that he never forgot them. During the aftermath of one particularly devastating bombing of a Woolworth’s store, he remembered thinking that a woman lying there on a stretcher had the most amazing red hair he had ever seen. When he got closer he realized the redness was where her head had been blown off by a bomb. He was particularly keen on aircraft, having witnessed so many different