Graham Coton - 1976 Chalk Drawing Female Nude

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Size

63 x 26cm (24.8" x 10.2")

Collection Information

Graham Coton (1926-2003) is best known as an artist of World War II comics. Born in Woolwich, he was trained at Shooter’s Hill School where he achieved the highest marks for Art the school had ever seen. He attended the Goldsmith's College of Art in London, but his education was interrupted during World War II. By 1946/1947 he was working for the R.A.F. as a Physical Instructor. He returned to Goldsmith’s but was “obliged to leave early and earn a living quickly.”

He began freelancing for Amalgamated Press in the early 1950s. He started out drawing 'Kit Carson' comics for Cowboy Comics Library and later he drew four short strips for the Thriller Comics. For Knock-Out, he drew several episodes of 'Sexton Blake' in 1951. Also for this magazine, he drew 'Captain Phantom', the World War II Master Spy, starting in 1953. Some of these strips were later reprinted in Thriller Comics Library with the lead character renamed 'Spy 13'.

Coton also created the strip 'Space Family Rollinson' in the early 1950s which was reprinted in France, Germany, Italy and Portugal. Coton will be mainly remembered as far as comic art is concerned for his car racing strips in Tiger, his war strips in Top Spot and, most of all, for his dynamic covers for the War Libraries. Graham Coton was one of Look and Learn’s leading artists in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Besides his work for the comics, Coton did artwork for numerous magazines, books, Royal Doulton commemorative plates, Readers Digest and book jackets, among other things. He also did commissions that were numerous and varied, from portraits to animals, pets, landscapes, seascapes, trains, planes and automobiles. He died on 14th October 2003 at his home in East Sussex.

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