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Martin Aitchison (born 1919) was an illustrator for the ''Eagle'' comic from 1952 to 1963, and then one of the main illustrators for Ladybird Books from 1963 to 1990. Aitchison was born in Birmingham. He was educated at Ellesmere College in Shropshire, leaving aged 15 to attend the Birmingham School of Art and then Slade School of Art. He married fellow art student Dorothy Self. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1939. He was deaf, excluding him from active service in the Second World War, but he worked for Vickers Aircraft as a technical illustrator. He produced drawings for the bouncing bomb designed by Barnes Wallis for the Dam Busters air raid. He became a freelance commercial artist after the war, producing drawings for a range of magazines. His earliest work was for Hulton Press' ''Lilliput'' magazine. He drew for ''Girl'', filling in for Ray Bailey on "Kitty Hawke and her All-Girl Air Crew", and illustrating "Flick and the Vanishing New Girl" in the first ''Girl'' annual. He began to work for the ''Eagle'' in 1952, drawing the French Foreign Legion strip "Luck of the Legion", written by Geoffrey Bond, for nearly ten years, including spin-off strips in ''ABC Film Review'' in 1952. He also drew spy series "Danger Unlimited" and adaptations of Arthur Conan Doyle's ''The Lost World'' and C. S. Forrester's Horatio Hornblower stories for the ''Eagle'', and "Arty and Crafty", written by Geoffrey Bond, for ''Eagle'' He joined Ladybird Books in 1963, and joined Harry Wingfield in illustrating many titles in its new Key Words Reading Scheme books, also known as Peter and Jane, which were used to teach so many British children to read. The consistency, naturalistic style and attention to detail of the artist made him a favourite with the prolific British publisher and over a period of a quarter of a century, he illustrated at least 100 different titles. Martin Aitchison was not the only artist to make the switch from ''The Eagle'' to Ladybird; Frank Hampson and Frank Humphris also followed the same path. He left Ladybird in 1987, and retired - apart from drawing a new comic strip, "Justin Tyme - ye Hapless Highwayman", written by Geoffrey Bond, and later his son Jim, for the fanzine ''Eagle Times'' from 1998 to 2004. ==Comics bibliography== *"Kitty Hawke and her All-Girl Air Crew", ''Girl'' *"Flick and the Vanishing New Girl, ''Girl Annual'' No 1 *"Luck of the Legion" written by Geoffrey Bond, ''Eagle'' Vol 3 No 5 – Vol 12 No 37, ''Eagle Annual'' No 3-10 (1952-1961) *"Danger Unlimited", ''Eagle'' Vol 12 No 33 – Vol 13 No 9 *"The Lost World", ''Eagle'' Vol 13 No 10 – Vol 13 No 29 *"Hornblower R. N.", ''Eagle Vol 13 No 28 – Vol 14 No 9 *"Warrior with Tin Legs", ''Eagle Annual'' No 11 (1962) *"Justin Tyme - Ye Hapless Highwayman", ''Eagle Times'' Vol 11 No 4 (Winter 1998) - Vol 17 No 1 (Spring 2004) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martin Aitchison」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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