20th May, 2021 11:00

20th Century Art & Design - Live Online

 
  Lot 94
 

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George Ramsbottom (British b.1903-d.1989)
Portfolio Comic Book Sketches

Portfolio of George Ramsbottom comic book drawings and illustrations to include multiple preparatory storyboard sketches, three successive A2 pages of a comic titled 'The Place and The Fights' and four pages of 'Madame Petrov', a watercolour after Lawson Wood, a page from a comic titled 'The Commandos Strike at Singapore' and a print of a flea market illustration. Some of the pencil sketches are titled or noted with names of characters/publications including Wizard, Bernard Briggs, Hotspur, Billy the Kid, The Catawamptious Kid, The Great Train Robbery and Lead of Emily.

George Ramsbottom was born in Pendleton, Manchester on 5 July 1903, son of John Henry Ramsbottom, the foreman of a cotton warehouse, and his wife Sarah. He was educated at Longworthy Road School, which he left at 17 to join the Manchester Evening News as a copy boy. The editor of the newspaper saw his drawings, and wrote a humorous travelogue series, "Percy Phlage", for him to illustrate. He also did freelance work for the E. D. Hawksey commercial art studio, and drew cartoons for The Northern Light and The Brewery Record.

In 1936 he moved to Dundee and joined DC Thomson as a staff artist. He served in the Royal Signals in India during the Second World War, and returned to Thomsons on demobilisation. He drew illustrations for a variety of their publications, and continued to draw for their comics until the 1970s.

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Sold for £130


 

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