Tony Weare (1 January 1912 – 2 December 1994) was an

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comics artist best known for drawing ''Matt Marriott'', a daily

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strip written by Jim Edgar, which ran in ''The Evening News'' from 1955 to 1977. Tony Weare was born at

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, and studied drawing at the Bournemouth School of Art but became a trooper in a cavalry regiment where he developed a love of horses. As well as ''Matt Marriott'', he also worked at ''Mickey Mouse Weekly'', where he worked on "Billy Brave", "Pride of the Circus", "Savage Splendour", and "Robin Alone". He illustrated "The Colditz Story" for ''Junior Express'' and was voted Serious Strip Cartoonist of the Year, 1961. In the 1980s he drew "Rookwood" for ''Look and Learn'' magazine and a few sequences in

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and David Lloyd's ''

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'', at the invitation of Lloyd, an admirer of his work. David Lloyd wrote about him:

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and look for Weare in the index. 1912 births 1994 deaths People from Wincanton English comics artists Alumni of Arts University Bournemouth {{UK-comics-creator-stub