Illustrationintheworld

  Clifford Webb RBA 1936, RE 1948 (14 March 1894 – 29 July 1972) was an English artist, illustrator and writer. He specializes in animal drawings. He was apprenticed as a lithographer, but served in the British Army (Wiltshire Regiment) during World War I and then studied at the Westminster School of Art. He fought at Mons, Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia. He was wounded four times, the most serious of which was a shot to the left side of his jaw, and mentioned in despatches. From 1917 to 1919, he served as a captain in the Indian Army. From 1919 to 1922, he studied at the Westminster School of Art under Walter Bayes and Bernard Meninsky and then from 1923 to 1926 he was a part-time lecturer at the Central School of Art in Birmingham. His remaining family still resides centrally in the UK and the United States. Webb produced illustrations for the first two books of the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome, which were used in some 1930s editions. Because Ransome did not li...

  Gary Chalk (Hertfordshire, 1952) is an English illustrator and writer. Raised in rural Hertfordshire, England where he started playing wargames at the age of 15. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in design and later worked as an art teacher and design and then later abandoning teaching to pursue a career as an illustrator. He currently lives in Villedieu-les-Poêles, France. He is best known for his contributions to the Lone Wolf saga book series, written by Joe Dever, illustrating the first 8 and the color illustrated guide The Magnamund Companion (Dawn of the Darklords). He also designed the role-playing game (The Lone Wolf RPG) published by the French Mongoose Publishing. After the interruption of the illustrations for lone wolf, Chalk, together with the writer David Kerrigan, started a project for a new gamebook between 1988 and 1989, entitled Prince of Shadows which incorporated many features of the fantasy literary saga conceived by Joe Dever. The series, published...

  Brian Froud (Winchester, 1947) is an English painter and illustrator. He lives and works in Devon with his wife Wendy Froud, also a fantasy artist. His paintings are often inspired by the nature of Dartmoor, in the Devon National Park, and by European folklore and mythology. Froud is known worldwide for his paintings of fairies and other creatures of the Sidhe. Together with Alan Lee he wrote and illustrated the book Fate (1978), which became one of the best known texts of the 20th century and was published in Italy in 1979. In 2002 a special edition of Fate with eight pages was published (not in Italy). plus and new designs, which once again met with great success. In addition to his countless picture books, Brian also has credits as a concept artist for several films, including Jim Henson's Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.

  Joyce Mercer (1896-1965) was a popular children's book illustrator best known for her work on fairy tales for Mother Goose and Hans Christian Anderson .Her style is characterized by highly fractured images created through strong lyrical line work that fit into the Art Deco world of her day.

Frank Cheyne Papé, who generally signed himself Frank C. Papé (4 July 1878 – 5 May 1972), was an English artist and book illustrator. He studied at The Slade School of Fine Art, completing his studies c. 1902–04. Papé was married to a fellow Slade student, illustrator Agnes Stringer. Papé's first known work, for Emile Clement's Naughty Eric and Other Stories from Giant, Witch, and Fairyland, published in 1902, remains extremely rare. One copy is held by The British Library. An original pen and ink illustration from one of the stories, 'The Magic Stone', has been found in Sussex, England. "Falcon the Hunter" from The Russian Story Book (1916) Papé's next earliest illustrations are found in books for children from around 1908, including The Toils and Travels of Odysseus (1908), a translation of The Odyssey by C.A. country; and Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1910). During the second decade of the 20th century, he made extensive contributions to ...