School Friend Picture Library No 1 (Signed) (Original)
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 11" x 14" (280mm x 350mm)
Date: 1962
Signature: Signed by artist bottom right
Code: AtkinsonFur
This is the Signed unique original Watercolour painting by Michel Atkinson.
Historic artwork for the very first issue of School Friend Library. Gentle humour from 1962 as daughter is dwarfed in her mother's faux fur coat. Incredible that this watercolour by Michel Atkinson has survived. Note paste ups obscure where title previously was presumably as the art was re-used at a later date for the cover of another comic.
Michel Atkinson is also famous for his Hank Janson and other paperback covers for Digit, etc, during this period.
- Artist BiographyMichel Atkinson
Something of a mystery man with regards to cover artwork. Michel Atkinson was an irregular contributor to various romance and schoolgirl pocket libraries from 1961 until the 1970s, producing covers for Romantic Confessions Picture Library (1961), Love Story PL (1961-62, 1965, 1969-70, 1973-74), True Life Library (1961-62, 1965-66, 1968-69), Princess PL (1961-63), Schoolgirls PL (1961-62), School Friend PL (1962-63), June and Schoolfriend and Princess PL (1968).
There were some fairly substantial gaps during which time he was probably doing book covers. He is known to have been a regular cover artist for the Hank Janson novels published by Roberts & Vinter in 1961-65 and a wide variety of genres for Digit Books in 1963-65.
Although fairly prolific, it is likely that 'Michel' (as he signed most of his book covers) found more regular work outside of producing book covers for paperbacks and for Fleetway Publications from the mid-1960s onwards.
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