British Comic Art

Jim Watson provides the illustrations for this text story published in Warlord, 10th May 1975.

 A back page feature drawn by Jim Watson. Warlord dated, 2nd November 1974.

 

 

Art by Jim Watson. Warlord, 25th January 1975.

I was moaning about Jim Watson a little while ago. Maybe a little unfair of me. I like his colour work: it has a nice feel to it. This is from a text story from Daily Mirror Book for Boys 1971.

Jim Watson provides the cover for this issue. It's interesting to see how many artists present their work. There are those who can actually draw, those who can sorta draw and those who wing-it. Watson falls into the latter category. He has a great style, but he can't actually draw. His anatomy is quite dodgy at times. It's almost like he learned how to draw faces but then couldn't be bothered with everything else. His style disguises this fact. It doesn't really matter does it? He had a long career. People must have liked his work, or else he wouldn't have been in the industry for so long. I actually like his war strips and think there's a grittiness to his art that suits war stories.

Battle 14th September 1977. Art by Jim Watson. I'm guessing JW started his career in the mid to late sixties. I became aware of his work in TV21, but later he worked for both DC Thomson and IPC. His work often appeared in black and white, but I think his colour work was pretty good too. I'll put some colour stuff up eventually.