"Carol Day' artist David Wright features in illustrators Issue 2

The latest issue of illustrators, the heavily illustrated art quarterly celebrating the finest European illustration of the 20th Century, is now available.

illustrators Issue 2 features two major articles on the artwork of David Wright – Peter Richardson looks at Wright's elegant, painted pin-up art (soon to be seen in Sirens: The Pin-Up Art Of David Wright from Titan Books) while Roger Clark gives his appreciation of Wright’s long running black and white line drawn Daily Mail newspaper strip, Carol Day (reprints of which are now available as an e-book from Amazon UK for Kindle and iPad).

 

This issue also includes articles on the historical illustrations of Cecil Doughty by David Ashford, the animal art of Raymond Sheppard by Norman Boyd, and the paperback and film poster art of Renato Fratini by David Roach. 

There is also an image gallery of the Fleetway Super Library covers of Jordi Penalva while John Watkiss discusses his Walking Dead concept artwork.

illustrators issue 2 costs £15 (or £55 for a 4 issue subscription to the title) and many of the artwork images included in its 96 pages are taken from scans of the original art boards.

illustrators 2 is available direct from the Book Palace Books website.



For a sneak peek of illustrators issue 2 click here.

illustrators editor Peter Richardson was interviewed about the magazine on downthetubes here.

• Several Carol Day adventures are available for Kindle, here's links to a few which will take you to the rest: 

• Carol Day - Lance Hallam - Kindle edition

• Carol Day - The Changeling

• Carol Day - Dangerous Currents

More Carol Day newspaper strip stories online

Fans of the classic  Carol Day newspaper strip may be interested to hear that the strip's official web site,  www.carol-day. com has recently updated with new stories and art. The new stories are "Money Matters" and "Jimmy Hayes".

Carol Day ran from 1956-1967, and was created by David Wright:  it was syndicated in around 70 papers around the world, but this high-spot of the newspaper comic strip has never been collected, and it never appeared in the US.

According to Patrick Wright, David's son, "even though the Hearst Newspaper did attempt to head-hunt my father in the early 1950s, it was felt Carol Day was too sophisticated for the American market!"
 

They've also added a few new pieces of original art for sale from Dangerous Currents (www.carol-day.com)
Roger Clark, who runs the site, has also been able to put together about half the episodes of the story from the first Carol Day story, "Charles Logan" .  

"I think it's enough that you can make sense of the story even with the gaps, and the art is so nice to look at that it seems well worth putting up, even  in incomplete form."

This site is a real labour of love and a great archive of a classic British newspaper strip that fully deserves wider attention.