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Hugh McNeill - Original Mid 20th Century Graphite Drawing. Graphite with pen and ink annotation as shown. McNeill was artistically responsible for three strips in the early issues of Jack and Jill, including the cover strip, and his was the style that was stamped on the paper. Unsigned. There is a horizontal central fold, which has torn at either edge. The paper is somewhat tatty at the edges and there is a strip of discolouration at the right edge.Hugh McNeill was one of the major contributors to British comics who helped change the face of British comics in the 1940s. He had learned his trade via Kayebon Studios where he was apprenticed at the age of 16, and evening classes at the Manchester School of Art. McNeill had already shown a talent for drawing at school, producing pictures of teachers, pupils and animals to entertain his classmates; before long he spread his wings to local church magazines and became the official cartoonist for the Manchester City Boxing Club, producing a booklet of cartoons for sale at boxing matches. McNeill was present in the first issue of The Beano (30 July 1938) and after the war McNeill began drawing adventure strips.
