Books By Frank Hampson - Author

FRANK HAMPSON (1918 - 1985) was a British illustrator, best known as the creator and artist of Dan Dare and other characters in the boys' comic, the Eagle, to which he contributed from 1950 to 1961. He also wrote and drew Caravan of Courage, a carefully researched and meticulously crafted telling of the life of Jesus Christ. He was voted Prestigioso Maestro at an international convention of strip cartoon and animated film artists held at Lucca, Tuscany in 1975. A jury of his peers gave him a Yellow Kid Award and declared him to be the best writer and artist of strip cartoons since the end of the Second World War.