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Take a trip if you will down memory lane. In a time long ago before Streaming music, MP3 down loads, walkmans , Mini discs, cd, cassettes to a time when albums where king. The Album cover was anticipated as much by me as the music. These were the first art I owned you could say.
The art was something to really get your teeth into. I loved the the early genesis albums. I learnt to draw from them, wind and wuthering, foxtrot, Trick of the tail, they had some fantastic characters I used to copy. Many an hour was spent listening and drawing. Did any of you do the same.
Although they are slightly battered I still have them now. This one is from the trick of the tail song of the same name.
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I certainly did, Alan. Back in the late 1940's/early 50's it was the Dandy comics for me. I liked Desperate Dan, I copied them, and made up my own. An artist I really liked was Dudley Watkins...he worked on Dan and many other characters in the comics. But he also did more 'serious' illustrations, like Treasure Island etc. I liked those best. I agree about album covers, many were brilliant, but they came along later for me.
Here's a couple of Dudley Watkins pics....
There's a Donald Mcgill is the bottom pic...the saucy postcard artist...liked his work too.
There's a Donald Mcgill is the bottom pic...the saucy postcard artist...liked his work too. 
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I used to copy drawings from those little illustrated story books that you'd find everywhere 60 years ago, but nowhere to be seen now..... I've been looking for an especially well-drawn example that I've not seen for years ..... I think it was one of the Dick Turpin series, and it featured a rather splendid housebreaker and murderer named Creepy Crawley - wish I could find it again!
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I remember the illustrated story books, Robert. The ones I recall were made in the same cheap newsprint as the early Dandys. They'd have more adult storylines. I remember one storyline about a fast bowler who played cricket for England...he lived like a hermit...very strange, but it held your attention. A couple of the stories would be fully illustrated like Alan's Dick Turpin, the remaining stories would have ONE illustration per story. Hotspur was the one I recall. When Dan Dare came out I switched to that...great illustrations.
This is what I mean by 'more adult'...there were no murder stories in the Dandy.
This is what I mean by 'more adult'...there were no murder stories in the Dandy.
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is this the same Dick Turpin by Peter grey, RobertProbably, although the illustrator in this one wasn't the one I recall, who used a clearer line - that is, less surrounding detail, sharper focus (just a different style, neither better nor worse). His villain was particularly villainous, which I what I liked about it - and the story including secret passages: I've always been one for a secret passage - it even had one under the dock at the Old Bailey..... I remember some of these details over 60 years, but I doubt I'll find the publication now....... will keep looking!