Illustrationintheworld

Francis Marshall was a British magazine and book illustrator, whose short stint as a comic artist included illustrations for installments of the French vertical comic strip 'Le Crime Ne Paie Pas' by  Paul Gordeaux . Early life and career William Francis Marshall was born in 1901 and educated at the Slade College of Fine Art in London. He began his career in advertising illustration. In 1928 he began a collaboration with Condé Nast as an illustrator for their magazine Vogue, to which he contributed during a period of ten years. He also painted numerous covers for romantic fiction especially the Barbara Cartland titles for PAN, Bantam, Corgi and NEL amongst others. He furthermore had a weekly fashion feature in the Daily Mail.