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Went to an exhibition of his work in Arundel today..very good and many different styles...also good humour...liked the dinosaurs making a snowman...some nice quirky stuff..

What did he draw at DC Thomson...what comic? etc..

Sounds good Peter - wish I lived nearer. I mostly associate him with the female detective Lesley Shane who starred in her own newspaper strip and 21 issues of AP's Thriller Detective Library during the 1950s. David Ashford memorably - and rather unfairly in my opinion - dismissed him as "someone with no style of his own". Personally I rather liked his work, even if it wasn't quite up to the standard of other SDL artists like Ron Turner, Ron Embleton, Bill Lacey and Alex Raymond.




- Phil Rushton

Thanks Phil...
It reminded me of my Dads drawings and paintings which I don't see very often in other artists ...meaning the amount of styles he used and the stories in his art and paintings..

I'll do a blog post on him now..

UPDATE
http://petergraycartoonsandcomics.blogs ... undel.html
see the free booklet I got..and info and pictures on the exhibition...booklet by Peter Hansen 2005.

Nice booklet by the estimable Peter Hansen (even if he does Spell Lesley Shane's name the American way! ). Thanks for putting that up Peter; I love the watercolours (if your dad's work is in the same league he must be quite a guy! ). For the record I'm not sure who drew that Super Detective Library cover but it could easily have been someone other than Oliver Passingham. I must admit I'd also be interested to know what he drew for DC Thomson. (Cue Kashgar...? )

- Phil Rushton

http://uk.geocities.com/pjgrobingray/
heres the website to my Dads work..

http://petergraycartoonsandcomics.blogs ... 0my%20Dado

One day I'll put up his drawing art as well...and his advertising work he did as a graphic designer..

Dads been on my mind a bit more recently its the month when he died...a year ago..
dreamed my wife died and my Dad was at the funeral..then she came back as a ghost..
think I'm watching too much sci-fi..

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Glad I can show you Oliver Passingham booklet...to give you an idea of the exhibition..

I see what you mean about the similarity Peter; your father was obviously a very talented man.

- Phil Rushton

Oliver Passingham drew loads of stuff for the Thomson girl's papers, mostly Mandy and Judy. He didn't draw anything for the boy's papers though.

Thanks for the info...I've updated the post with the info and thanks to you..

Peter, your Dad's jazz painting should be called Eel Pie Island. Loved them by the way

Just looked it up what Eel Pie was about...quite an exciting place..
my fault the spelling..I'll correct it..also made the pictures bigger on the website..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel_Pie_Island



note the boy reading the Eagle comic..


I sggested read the Beano on the bus...

I think you are right about the SDL cover not being by Passingham Phil. I think it's the work of James McConnell who did a lot of covers for the various picture libraries in the 1950's.

I've posted a little bit on Oliver Passingham here: Tobruk Original Art Boards http://bit.ly/SaX1D8

Does anyone have a copy of the Lion Epic spectacular special? I'd like to find out how many pages were in Passingham's Tobruk adaption.

There were thirteen pages. The boards shown on your blog are pages 1,2,9 and 4 respectively.

Here's how the final page appeared in print:



- Phil Rushton

Thanks Phil, I now have all 13 boards!! I'll scan them and post them up at some point.