The Saint - Buffalo Bill (Signed) (Original)

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The Saint - Buffalo Bill art by Ron Tiner

The Saint - Buffalo Bill (Signed) (Original)


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Artist: Ron Tiner
Medium: Pen & Ink on Acid-free Board
Size: 16" x 11" (400mm x 275mm)
Date: c. 1965
Signature: Signed by the artist in ink, centre
Code: TinerTheSaint02

This is the Signed unique original Pen & Ink drawing by Ron Tiner.

An exceptionally rare signed Ron Tiner illustration from The Saint featuring Roger Moore as Simon Templar and assorted Buffalo Bill characters.

This is a preliminary drawing making it even more special!
  • Artist Biography
    Ronald Charles Tickner; Sittingbourne, Kent, UK
    Ron Tiner is a British author and illustrator of books and comics, known for the book Figure Drawing Without A Model (published by F&W Media International), sequential narrative illustration work such as Hellblazer and 2000 AD (comics), and illustrations for a number of classic fictions. He was born in Borden, near Sittingbourne, Kent.

    For financial reasons he was unable to attend art college, so originally followed a career in telecommunications. At age 25 he turned to teaching art in schools, producing Comics art in various genres including SF under the pseudonym Ron Tiner (which name he now uses for all purposes) to conceal his identity from employers and students alike; his first professional commission was drawing the strip "Spring-Heeled Jack" for the comic Hotspur.

    Ron Tiner's first regularly published work was for the DC Thompson publication The Hotspur from 1976 to 1980 and the IPC publication Battle Action. He went on to become a prolific illustrator of sequential narrative artwork (or graphic storytelling) for comics and magazines for children and adults, throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

    He provided illustrations for books in the 1990s and early 2000s, including work for classic texts for both Oxford University Press and Penguin.

    He has also authored his own books on illustrating, including Figure Drawing Without a Model, Drawing From Your Imagination, one on fellow artist John Harris (artist) Mass: The Art of John Harris and The Encyclopaedia of Fantasy & Science Fiction Art Techniques (co-authored with John Grant (author).

    He also lectured in illustration and sequential narrative and for Swindon College from 1997 to 2005.

    Ron Tiner's comic illustration (mostly uncredited) included work for:

    The Hotspur
    Spring-heeled Jack (1976-1977)
    Black Jack the Footpad (1978-1979)
    The Red Sands of Roga (1978-1979)
    Slaves of Vasala (1980)
    Action
    School for Survivors (1976)
    Battle Action
    Major Eazy (1978)
    HMS Nightshade (1979 – 1981) (In collaboration with Mike Western)
    Rat Pack (1979)
    Dispatch Rider (1980)
    Clash of the Guards (1982)
    Powerman
    The Black Star (1976-1977)
    Powerman (1978)
    Judy
    Mary Doone's Diary (1982-1983)
    Peretti Publications
    The Pickle at Trafalgar - 2005
    Tammy
    Linda’s Fox (1981)
    Jinty
    Suzy
    Star of the Silver Pool (1983)
    The House on Witch Hill (1982-1983)
    Oink!
    The Hog of the Baskervilles (1989)
    King Solomon’s Swines (1989)
    Fiesta Comic STRIP
    Fanny Hill (1988-1990)
    Arabian Nights (1990)
    Brain Damage
    The Striker Wore Pink Knickers (1989)
    Match Weekly
    Canon (1983-1985)
    2000AD
    Future Shocks (1979, 1980 & 1981)
    Starlord
    Hellblazer
    Nos. 24, 25, 27, 28 & 29 (1989)

    Other publications in which illustrations have been published include:
    Punch (magazine) (1996-1997)
    Rex (1995)
    Financial Times (1994)
    The Daily Telegraph (2009)

    During his career he has worked with a number of other British and European comic artists and writers such as Alan Moore, Jamie Delano, Kev Walker and Mark Buckingham, and the late author John Grant.

    Aside from sequential narrative illustration, Tiner received commissions for book illustrations, increasing in number during the decline of the British comic industry. These included contrasting styles of work for Usborne's abridged illustrated versions of The Tales of Robin Hood and Dr Jeckyll And Mr Hyde (both 1995).

    For Oxford University Press his work has included further classics such as:
    John Buchan's The 39 Steps (2000)
    Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd (2002)
    C.S. Forester's The African Queen (2004)
    Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim (1997)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes & the Duke's Son, 2002).
    Operation Terror

    Published by Penguin:
    Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal (1999)
    Washington Irving's Rip van Winkle (2000)

    Published by Smith Settle
    Gumboot Practice (1989)
    Dales Law (1990)
    A Haunt of Rare souls (1990)
    Behind the Brass Plate (1993)

    He also adapted six of Enid Blyton's Secret Seven stories in the 1980s as graphic narratives for Gutenburghus's Enid Blyton's Adventure Magazine[3]. He also provided illustrations for Grant's The Far Enough Window, published by Bewrite Books in 2002 (ISBN 978-1904224792).
    Bibliography

    As sole author his works include:
    Figure Drawing Without a Model (published by David and Charles ISBN 978-0715329320)
    Drawing From Your Imagination (published by David and Charles ISBN 978-0715329252)
    Mass: The Art of John Harris (published by Paper Tiger, ISBN 978-1855858312)

    He has worked on a number of projects with the author John Grant, including as a contributing editor on The Encycolpaedia of Fantasy and The Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction (both published by Orbit Publications), and The Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction & Fantasy Art Techniques (published by Quarto Publishing.

    In 1997 Ron Tiner developed a course on the theory and practice of "Narrative & Sequential Illustration" for The University of Swindon, which he delivered from 1997 to 2005. Of that, Tiner said, I'd always wanted to be a film-maker as a boy and I think I saw comics in that way – like films on paper, where you ‘see’ the story as much as hear it. To achieve this, films use all sorts of visual devices to draw you in and maintain the narrative, a judicious use of close-ups and longshots, varied “camera” angles, high and low viewpoints and so forth. I wanted to achieve that effect in my comics.

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