Battle of the Planets
Art by Keith Watson for TV Comic dated, 8th May 1981. Based on the Japanese TV series, Science Ninja Team Gatchaman.
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Showing posts with label Keith Watson. Show all posts
Saturday, 16 August 2025
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Original artwork
If you head over to Comic Book Auctions you'll find a treasure-trove of goodies up for offer.
(In a Spike Milligan voice) "Ah, I see you bought the whole collection? SO rich!!"
Some of the pieces on offer:
Sexton Blake Library 736 cover art by Eric Parker (1941).
Beryl The Peril by David Law for The Topper (1950s).
Leo Baxendale talks about Davey Law in his book, 'A Very Funny Business', ( a great book, by the way) about how DL agonised/laboured over his pages. The art 'looked' simple, but the images didn't flow out of the artist so easily. It's kinda evident when looking at the patches pasted all over this original.
'Branded' original cover artwork (1960) by Nino Caroselli from Thriller Picture Library 302
Captain Condor by Keith Watson from Lion 7 Oct 1961. I really like the spaceship design.
Eartha, (early 1980s) episode 6 drawn by Jon M Burns for The News Of The World Sunday Colour Magazine.
(In a Spike Milligan voice) "Ah, I see you bought the whole collection? SO rich!!"
Some of the pieces on offer:
Sexton Blake Library 736 cover art by Eric Parker (1941).
Beryl The Peril by David Law for The Topper (1950s).
Leo Baxendale talks about Davey Law in his book, 'A Very Funny Business', ( a great book, by the way) about how DL agonised/laboured over his pages. The art 'looked' simple, but the images didn't flow out of the artist so easily. It's kinda evident when looking at the patches pasted all over this original.
'Branded' original cover artwork (1960) by Nino Caroselli from Thriller Picture Library 302
Captain Condor by Keith Watson from Lion 7 Oct 1961. I really like the spaceship design.
Eartha, (early 1980s) episode 6 drawn by Jon M Burns for The News Of The World Sunday Colour Magazine.
Sunday, 6 March 2011
Keith Watson
An illustration by Keith Watson that appeared in a Society of Strip Illustration publication in the 1980s. Go here for original posting.
Go here for some examples of KW's 60s Dan Dare work:
Operation Earth-Saver
Operation Fireball
Go here for some examples of KW's 60s Dan Dare work:
Operation Earth-Saver
Operation Fireball
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Monday, 11 October 2010
Saturday, 9 October 2010
Dan Dare
An original piece of art by Keith Watson. You'll find it living here.
A nice opening page for this weeks episode. Although, personally, I feel there was something lacking in KW's work on Dan Dare when compared to Hampson and Bellamy. Hampson was the great technician, you could imagine those spaceships really flying. Bellamy made the whole thing so damn dynamic and exciting. To me KW fell inbetween both camps. He could draw the hardware at times, but then there's an emptiness to some of his frames, whereas Hampson would have some wonderful doo-hicky, or some thoughtful piece of architecture in the background. With Bellamy, his characters were caught off-balance and always on the move. KW's people seem to mime the movements. Don't get me wrong, I love Keith Watson's work, but there is something 'missing' in his Dare work. It might just be the simple fact that he didn't have the time to take the time, with pressures of deadlines etc. Although, when you compare this work to some of his contemporaries, this art knocks the ball out of the field. It's all relative innit, Guv?
A nice opening page for this weeks episode. Although, personally, I feel there was something lacking in KW's work on Dan Dare when compared to Hampson and Bellamy. Hampson was the great technician, you could imagine those spaceships really flying. Bellamy made the whole thing so damn dynamic and exciting. To me KW fell inbetween both camps. He could draw the hardware at times, but then there's an emptiness to some of his frames, whereas Hampson would have some wonderful doo-hicky, or some thoughtful piece of architecture in the background. With Bellamy, his characters were caught off-balance and always on the move. KW's people seem to mime the movements. Don't get me wrong, I love Keith Watson's work, but there is something 'missing' in his Dare work. It might just be the simple fact that he didn't have the time to take the time, with pressures of deadlines etc. Although, when you compare this work to some of his contemporaries, this art knocks the ball out of the field. It's all relative innit, Guv?
Friday, 20 August 2010
Spaceship Away
This one's for fans of the original Dan Dare.
I'm probably preaching to the converted, but here's a plug for Spaceship Away. Subscription and back issue details are here. Immediately below is a rather spiffing wraparound cover by one of the original members of Frank Hampson's studio, Don Harley.
I'm probably preaching to the converted, but here's a plug for Spaceship Away. Subscription and back issue details are here. Immediately below is a rather spiffing wraparound cover by one of the original members of Frank Hampson's studio, Don Harley.
Saturday, 7 August 2010
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Sunday, 24 May 2009
Battle of the Planets
From TV Comic 17th April 1981. Former Dan Dare artist Keith Watson provides colour art for this strip adaptation of the animated series Battle of the Planets.
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