School Friend Picture Library - Teacher Knows Best (Signed) (Original)

School Friend Picture Library - Teacher Knows Best art by Michel Atkinson

School Friend Picture Library - Teacher Knows Best (Signed) (Original)


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Artist: Michel Atkinson
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 13" x 16" (320mm x 400mm)
Date: c. 1962
Signature: Signed by artist bottom centre
Code: AtkinsonSchool

This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by Michel Atkinson.

A Wonderful bright cheery example of the great Michel Atkinson's art for the girl's picture library comics that he produced in the early 1960s.

Hard to believe that in a few years he would be painting covers for the hard boiled adventures of Hank Janson or adult romances for publishers such as Digit. A lovely signed example of his work.

Originally published as the cover to School Friend Picture Library #11.
  • Artist Biography

    Michel 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.
    Source: From biographical notes by Steve Holland


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