Ron Embleton (1930-1988)
Ronald Sydney Embleton (b. London, 6 October 1930; d. 13 February 1988)
drew from a young age, winning a national poster competition aged 12,
and studied at the South East Essex Technical College and School of Art.
He joined a commercial art studio and was beginning to establish himself as a freelance comics artist when he turned 18 and was called up for national service.
He returned to freelancing in 1950, seeting up a studio with his schoolfriend Terry Patrick and James Bleach. They worked for small publishers like Scion, TV Boatrdman, Norman Light, DCMT and others, and Embleton started working for Amalgamated Press' Comet, Comic Cuts,
Cowboy Comics and Super Detective Library.
He drew "Rogers' Rangers" (1953), "Strongbow the Mighty" (1954-57) and "Don o' the Drums" (1957) for Mickey Mouse Weekly, and "Wulf the Briton" (1956-60) for Express Weekly, on which he developed his colour technique and later wrote scripts.
Later strips he worked on included "Biggles" (1960) for TV Express,
"Wrath of the Gods" (1963) for Boy's World, and "Johnny Frog" (1964) for the Eagle. His work on "Stingray" for TV Century 21, led Gerry Anderson to invite him to provide art for the opening credits of his new show, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.
He also illustrated numerous series for Look and Learn in the 1960s and early 70s,
and filled in for Don Lawrence on one episode of The Trigan Empire. From 1971 he provided illustrations for World of Wonder. He also drew for nursery titles like Playhour, Once Upon a Time
and The Storyteller. In the late 70s he was commissioned to draw 43 characters
from Dickens for This England magazine.
In his later career he drew full colour comic strips for Penthouse magazine - "Oh, Wicked Wanda" (1973-80), written by Frederic Mullally, and "Sweet Chastity",
written by Bob Guccione.
He also drew the fishing strip Terry and Son, written by Conrad Frost,
in the Daily Express in 1984-88. He died of a heart attack in 1957.
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SUMMARY
1951-Buffalo Bill and The Phantom
1952-H813 - Long Gun
1953-H875 - The Singing Sword
1954-LSA-The Lore of the West
1955-SDL#58- Panthers Moon
1936-P095-Ron Embletons Playhour.
1956-P095-The Compleat Boy King Arthur
1956-P112-Beauty and the Beast
1956-Ph095-Ron Embletons Playhour 2
1956-SDL#72-The Golden Salamander
1957-MMW-Don o the Drums
1957-MW-Don o the Drums
1957-P156-Judar and his Brothers
1957-R1659_The Homeless Ones
1957-R1671-The Lore of the West
1960-TVE306-Biggles
1963-BWO1-Wrath of the Gods
1963-BW26-Ticket to Adventure
1963-BW28-What Would You Do
1963-BW4S-Hand of Fate
1963-JJA-The Last Dragons
1963-Ph458-Embletons Gulliver Guinea-Pigs Travels 2
1963-TA-Vengeance of the Hawk
1964-Conqueror of the World
1964-Eagle-The Prizefighters
1964-Johnny Frog
1964-Zizi and the Daccits
1965-BWA-Boys World annuals
1965-JJA-The Golden Ball
1965-Ron Embletons Amber (Dutch)
1965-Ron Embletons Stingray
1966-JJA-The Land Without Sugar
1966-LP040-The Man from Uncle
1969.14-The Swan Queen
1971-Li-The Flower of Gloster
1973-Oh, Wicked Wanda (complete
1901-Sweet Chesity 01-08 (complete Spanish)
1961-Sweet Chesiy
1982-JJA-Untidy Daniel
NP Romeo Brown - 29 The King of the Beatniks
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Ron painted far fewere than 43 characters from Dickens for the quarterly magazine This England. I was the magazine's Managing Director during the 1980s and knew Ron and looked forward to him personally delivering his quarterly painting to our offices. I still own two of them.
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