Artist: Ron Embleton Medium: Pen & Ink on Board Size: 22" x 7" (570mm x 170mm) Date: 1985 Code: RETerry070
This is the unique original Pen & Ink drawing by Ron Embleton.
Terry and Son was the last strip Ron Embleton began working on prior to his death in 1988, although he worked on 'Sweet Chastity' in Penthouse simultaneously.
This strip focussed on angling and appeared in the Daily Express from 1984-88 and was written by Conrad Frost. Some of the strips were collected in book form in 1987. An unusual but distinctive addition to the illustrious canon of Ron Embleton's work.
This is episode 70. This original board is from the Ron Embleton family collection.
Ronald Sydney Embleton (6 October 1930 - 13 February 1988; Limehouse, London, UK) Born in Limehouse, London in 1930, Embleton began drawing as a young boy, submitting a cartoon to the News of the World at the age of 9 and, at 12, winning a national poster competition.
In 1946 Embleton went to the South-East Essex Technical College and School of Art. There he had the incredible good fortune to be taught by David Bomberg, one of the greatest – though at that time sadly under-appreciated – British artists of the twentieth century.
At age 17 he earned himself a place in a commercial studio but soon left to work freelance, drawing comic strips for many of the small publishers who sprang up shortly after the war.
He was soon drawing for the major publishers. His most fondly remembered strips include Strongbow the Mighty in Mickey Mouse Weekly, Wulf the Briton in Express Weekly, Wrath of the Gods in Boys' World, Tales of the Trigan Empire and Johnny Frog in Eagle and Stingray in TV Century 21.
Embleton also provided the illustrations that appeared in the title credits for the Captain Scarlet TV series, and dozens of paintings for prints and newspaper strips. A meticulous artist, his illustrations appeared in Look and Learn for many years, amongst them the historical series Roger’s Rangers.
Oh, Wicked Wanda! was a British full-colour satirical and saucy adult comic strip, written by Frederic Mullally and drawn by Ron Embleton. The strip regularly appeared in Penthouse magazine from 1973 to 1980 and was followed by Embleton's equally saucy dark humoured Merry Widow strip, written by Penthouse founder Bob Guccione.
Less well known, however, was his equally energetic career as an oil painter. In fact, being a painter had been his life's ambition – his 'driving force', according to his daughter Gillian. It was only his remarkable success as an illustrator that in the end largely diverted him from the painter's path.
Embleton died on 13 February 1988 at the relatively young age of 57 after a lifetime of truly prodigious artistic output of remarkable quality.
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