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Ian Knox

Posted: 16 Jan 2007, 12:38
by Peter Gray
I like his work a lot.....
Great at the exaggerated human and animal figure.....bodys, legs and faces..all out of proportion in funny ways....one of the girls in Robot Gran looked like a Gorilla with her arms dragging along...
also cars...trains...extending out...and wobbling along..
every panel was filled with over the top action......comics should do this more....
comparing my work to his......I like doing exaggerated and over the top ideas but my drawings are simple and rounded.....we can all learn from him..
his work really stood out......

he drew Robot Gran in Cheeky...Whoopee..
Grim Gym in Whizzer and chips


he must have been a political artist at a guess.and good at caricatures..

heres an example of his work.......from Oink.........great black humour.. 8)

[img:1642:2331]http://uk.geocities.com/pjgcartoonists/ianknoxNEW.jpg[/img]

Ian Knox

Posted: 17 Jan 2007, 01:29
by AndyB
Ian is indeed a political cartoonist, still working away in Belfast.

Re: Ian Knox

Posted: 18 Jan 2007, 02:01
by Lew Stringer
AndyB wrote:Ian is indeed a political cartoonist, still working away in Belfast.
His style is excellent. I used to look forward to his work in Buster, (along with Jack Oliver's work then too) around 1981. A high point in the comic's run I thought.

Lew

Ian Knox

Posted: 18 Jan 2007, 19:00
by AndyB
I think he works for the Irish News, but my memory could be faulty! A collection of his cartoons came out a couple of years ago.

Ian Knox

Posted: 24 Jan 2007, 13:09
by Peter Gray
see more of his work here.... showing his comic work

http://uk.geocities.com/pjgianknox/

Ian Knox

Posted: 20 Mar 2007, 17:26
by Toonpooch
Dreamy Den was a particular favourite from Buster...
An old concept handled masterfully by Mr Knox...

http://www.toonhound.com/dreamyden.htm

Ian Knox & Strawbelly

Posted: 10 Jul 2007, 12:06
by Muffy
Strawbelly, the scarecrow was another one of his from Buster at the beginning of the 1980s. Probably partly due to Wurzel Gummidge, Ian Knox's drawings gave the strip a bizarre look. He did some fab cartoons of the animals (Cows; Shortcake the fox and others) and Strawbelly's nemesis Lord Fyffe Bananna, whose head was in some unusual poses. :o