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.

Career

Embleton began as a comic strip artist, and worked on ''

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'' and '' TV Century 21'' in the 1960s. He created the

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science fiction strip ''Phantom Patrol'' for

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' ''

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'' in 1962; it was reprinted as ''The Ghost Patrol'' in '' Smash!'' in 1966. Embleton was the first artist to work on the new ''

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'' in the revived ''

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'', published by

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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,

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. 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

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, a living-history association.''The Company of Saynt George''. Miroque. 2011, Iss. 4, p. 121. His 1995 book ''The Medieval Soldier'', co-authored with Tolkien illustrator John Howe, had a big influence on the living-history hobby as a whole. He lives in Prêles 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 (Fra ...

. 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