| Frank
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| Nationality - English |
Profession - Illustrator |
| Date of birth - 21 Dec 1918
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Date of death - 1985 |
| Place of birth
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Frank Hampson was born on December 21, 1918 at Audenshaw, England.
Hampson is best known for being the creator and artist of Dan Dare and other characters in the British boys' comic, the Eagle, to which he contributed between 1950 and 1959.
In 1949, in collaboration with Christian vicar, Rev. Marcus Morris, he took a new comic, the Eagle, to the Hulton Press.
In April the following year, a revised and improved version of his Eagle hit the bookstalls. The strip that sold the comic, which switched between 16 and 20 pages on alternate weeks, was Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future.
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Following the examples of Alex Raymond and Milton Caniff in the U.S., Hampson instigated a studio system where, from his home in Epsom, Surrey, as many as four artists might work on two pages of strip at any one time. The result was some incredibly detailed and inventive artwork, but also incredibly high bills. When Hulton Press was bought up in 1959, and the Eagle moved to a new publisher, Hampson's studio was disbanded.
Hampson is also well-known to fans and collectors of Ladybird books as he illustrated several of their books including the three 'Nursery Rhymes' books from series 413.
Frank Hampson died from a stroke and from the ongoing effects of throat cancer in July 1985, in Surrey, England. |
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