Jason Donovan Story E (Original)
Medium: Pen & Ink Wash on Card
Size: 13" x 16" (330mm x 410mm)
Date: 1989
Code: GrayJD43-89a
This is the unique original Pen & Ink Wash by Maureen & Gordon Gray.
Jason's Story - First page biographical comic strip featuring the rise to fame and fortune of Jason Donovan, from youthful aspiration, to early TV success and on to pop stardom; features cameos from his sometime co-star Kylie Minogue.
Wonderfully illustrated by the team of Maureen and Gordon Gray. Features lots of good likenesses of the iconic star.
This fifth instalment appeared as page 6 of Look-in issue 43, 1989.
- Artist BiographyMaureen & Gordon Gray
For such prolific illustrators and comic strip artists, almost nothing is known about Maureen and Gordon Gray. Some library sources give their years of birth as 1932 (Gordon) and 1940 (Maureen), but that information should be treated with care.
Usually signing their work 'Gray', they were regular contributors to comics in the 1980s, producing Kid's Army, a Second World War strip loosely based on the TV sitcom Dad's Army, Fame, based on the TV show, and The Fantastic Adventures of Adam Ant, about pop-star Adam travelling through time to pop up at various points in history. These strips all appeared in DC Thomson's TV Tops comic in around 1982.
The Grays then began appearing in Look-In, contributing Bucks Fizz (1983-84), The Story So Far featuring Shaking Stevens (1985), A-Ha (1986) and Michael Jackson (1986), Airwolf (1986), The A-Team (1986-87) and Five Star Life (1987).
A later graphic novel is credited to Maureen Gray only: The Haunting of Julia (2007) is based on Mary Hooper's children's novel Thirteen Candles, described thus: "When Julia watches Dad's video of herself preparing to blow out the candles, she notices something weird and mysterious, a dark hazy shape, leaning over her shoulder. She's sure it blew out the candles, but what is it?"
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