£440.00
True War #3 page 4 (Original)
Medium: Pen & Ink on Board
Size: 13" x 17" (330mm x 430mm)
Date: 1978
Code: WatsonTW3-4LL
This is the unique original Pen & Ink drawing by Jim Watson.
An original page of art from the magazine True War #3. Showing the historical events in World War II after the Germans had been driven out of North Africa and the Allied invasion of mainland Europe.
This dynamic page shows Adolf Hitler, British Commandos, a map of the invasion of Sicily with the battle plan of the 8th Army under Montgomery and 7th Army under Patton, plus an actual photo of the Allied Commanders of the campaign (Montgomery, Eisenhower, Bradley, Truscott, Gray, Keyes, Patton and Dempsey).
- Artist BiographyJim Watson (born ?1933; UK)
British comic artist Jim Watson was an artist for TV Century 21 during the 1960s, drawing features like 'Thunderbirds' and 'Captain Scarlet'.
In the 1970s he was a contributor to the war titles Battle Picture Weekly (IPC) and Warlord (DC Thomson) and True War.
He was also present in 2000AD magazine, for which he created 'Colony Earth' in 1978.