EXTRACTS: llustrators issue 7 © 2014 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

60 John Vernon Lord It’s a frequent anxiety of all rail travellers. There you are sitting on the train quietly minding your own business and along comes the ticket inspector with the inevitable refrain, “Tickets please.” The anxiety stems from the fear that you might just have misplaced your ticket, thereby putting yourself at the tender mercy of the debt collectors of whichever railway you are travelling with. For John Vernon Lord, when just such an encounter occurred and the required ticket failed to manifest itself, despite a frantic search of pockets and travel case, his last resort was to leaf through the pages of his notebook. Finding the meticulously rendered drawing he had