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Thursday 26 June 2008

Eagle Artists - Michael Charlton (1923 - 2008)

Michael Alan Charlton was born in Poole, Dorset, and studied at Poole School of Art and Edinburgh College of Art. An illustrator in black and white and colour, his only know contribution to Eagle was the single black and white picture shown here, which he drew to illustrate an Arthur Catherall story called Ten Days to Christmas - a short story of Ojibwa fur trappers in the land of perpetual snow. It appeared, appropriately enough, on 14th December, 1951 (in Eagle Vol 2 No 36). He also illustrated Professor Kitto and the Magic Ray in another Eagle-associated publication: Swift Annual No 2 (Hulton Press, 1955), for which he drew three black and white pictures. Charlton illustrated dozens of books from 1954 through 2003, including the children's book Wheezy (Bodley Head, 1988), which he also wrote. He lived in Dorset, and died there after a long illness on 23rd June, 2008.

An obituary and bibliography of Michael Charlton can be read at Steve Holland's Bear Alley, which is where we learned of Michael Charlton's death.

1 comment:

Paddy Brown said...

He also illustrated a short story called "On the Trail of the Lost Caribou" by John Stuart in Eagle Annual No. 7.