Gerry Embleton is a British artist, born in London. He is best known as an illustrator of military and historic subjects. He has illustrated more than 40 titles for the military publisher

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. He is the younger brother of illustrator

Ron Embleton Ronald Sydney Embleton (6 October 1930 – 13 February 1988) was a British illustrator who gained fame as a comics artist. In the 1950s and 1960s, Embleton also pursued a career as an oil painter, and he exhibited his works widely in Britain, Ger ...

Career

Embleton began as a comic strip artist, and worked on '' Look and Learn'' and '' TV Century 21'' in the 1960s. He created the

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science fiction strip ''Phantom Patrol'' for Odhams Press' '' Swift'' in 1962; it was reprinted as ''The Ghost Patrol'' in '' Smash!'' in 1966. Embleton was the first artist to work on the new ''

Dan Dare Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories. Dare appeared in the ''Eagle'' comic story ''Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future'' from 1950 to 1967 (and subsequently in repri ...

'' in the revived ''

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'', published by IPC Magazines in 1982. This Dan Dare was the original's eponymous great-great-grandson, taking on the mantle of space explorer. Set 200 years after the original story, the first story-arc featured the return of Dan Dare's earliest nemesis, The Mekon. In 1983, Embleton moved to

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,''

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'' (Dec. 2006), p. 43 and later began working in children's educational illustrations and then advertising. In 1998, he founded a company called Time Machine that works with museums all over the world, specializing in vivid displays with 3D figurines. Gerry Embleton is a founding member of the

Company of Saynt George The Company of St. George is a living-history group portraying an artillery Company in the age of Charles the Bold (1467-1477). eBook also available: The group does events with a civil and military aspect and is known for its display of daily ...

, a living-history association.''The Company of Saynt George''. Miroque. 2011, Iss. 4, p. 121. His 1995 book ''The Medieval Soldier'', co-authored with

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illustrator John Howe, had a big influence on the living-history hobby as a whole. He lives in

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near

Neuchâtel , neighboring_municipalities= Auvernier, Boudry, Chabrey (VD), Colombier, Cressier, Cudrefin (VD), Delley-Portalban (FR), Enges, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Hauterive, Saint-Blaise, Savagnier , twintowns = Aarau (Switzerland), Besançon (France), ...

. He also paints landscapes.

References

External links

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Time-Machine websiteLook and Learn archive search
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Embleton, Gerry Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Artists from London English comics artists