David Sque (born April 1944; Bournemouth, UK)
David Sque studied at Bournemouth Art College and got his National Diploma in Art and Design.

Then a college friend, Yvonne Mullins (married name Hutton) introduced him to the World of Comic Illustration! He did some work on Annuals and Summer Specials until he was given his first weekly story. This was ‘Phillip Driver', who was a Spy, whose cover was a professional Golfer. After this, he went on to illustrate ‘Martin's Marvelous Mini'! This was a story of Martin, who he drew as a younger version of himself, and his mate who was his mechanic. They raced and rallied a yellow mini they called ‘George'!

He started working for IPC in the 1960s - one of his earliest strips being The Skids Kids - a sports strip in the kids' humour title, Buster.

Best known for his comic illustration work, including Martin's Marvelous Mini, and, for the last 10 years, Scorer in the Daily Mirror.

In January 1975, David stood in for Yvonne, who was having her second child, drawing Roy of the Rovers. The editor, Barrie Tomlinson, liked the way he was doing Roy and asked him to do Roy of the Rovers full time and, sadly, he had to drop drawing ‘Martin's Marvelous Mini'.

He became the artist of the celebrated Roy of the Rovers comic strip and continued to draw it until August 1986 and he gave Roy a new image with the flowing blond locks he became famous for. It was during Sque's run that the 'Roy of the Rovers' comic book was launched, in 1976.

In 2003, Sque took over the football comic 'Scorer' in The Daily Mirror, after the previous artist John Gillatt suffered a stroke. Sque continued 'Scorer' until its final episode in 2011.

Over the years he has also done a lot of work for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

David has been a full time artist and illustrator all his professional life and continues to paint fine art including personal portraits.
Source: Illustration Art Gallery; Lambiek