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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Daleks ThunderbirdsRon Turner (1922 19 December 1998) was a British illustrator and comic book artist whose highly distinctive style is closely associated with, and evocative of, British pulp science fiction of the 1950s and 60s. Ron Turner became interested in science fiction at an early age, with numerous works across several media: the novels of H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Jules Verne; films and film serials such as Metropolis, Things to Come, and Flash Gordon; and Alex Raymond's comic strips. He developed a keen interest in American science-fiction pulp magazines, such as Amazing Stories and Astounding Stories (now known as Analog Science Fiction), and Turner first began to develop his talent by attempting to copy the often spectacular cover illustrations. In 1936, at age 14, Turner first got work as an apprentice in Odhams, a London art studio and publishing house. By 1938, Turner was providing illustrations for the British magazine Modern Wonder. In 1940, Turner's professional art career was interrupted by World War II, and he was drafted into the British army. He returned to professional illustration in the late 1940s, getting a job drawing comic strips for Scion Ltd.'s Big series, mostly centered around the crew of the "Atomic Mole", a subterranean craft, who would explore the habitable spaces beneath the Earth's crust. Odhams eventually began publishing a line of paperback fiction, for which Turner drew numerous covers, notably the "Vargo Statten" series by John Russell Fearn. Turner's art raised his profile in the illustration world enough that other publishers began sending assignments his way as well. In 1953, Turner left Odhams to try his hand at freelancing and attempt to produce a regular comic strip in the mode... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10951671


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781156179628
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 38
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156179629
  • Publisher Date: 31 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Ron Turner
  • Width: 229 mm


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