Some of his earliest work appeared in the confessions magazine True Stories, and various pop magazines. Although he had no magazine experience, he was hired on the strength of his portfolio and began working at the company’s Tower House office on Southampton Street, overlooking Covent Garden. After working in a number of jobs in advertising and film titling, he went for an interview with Pat Halls at Newnes. Jack Cunningham, art editor and designer on many IPC comics during the 1970s and 1980s, died following a severe stroke on 5 August 2018, aged 95.īorn John Davis Cunningham in Scotland on 17 December 1922, Jack worked for an advertising agency in Glasgow before moving to London in the mid-1950s.
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In the 1980s he drew a comic based on the children's school drama 'Grange Hill' for Beeb and then began an association with the girls' titles of DC Thomson, drawing 'The Secret Gymnast' and horse stories for Bunty, among other things.
By 1978 he was drawing 'Moonchild', a girls' story with horror elements, for Fleetway's Misty. After a ballet story published in Girl's Crystal, he drew 'Cherry and the Children' for five years in School Friend.Īrmstrong is best known for his gymnastics strip 'Bella', that ran in Tammy. He eventually also took on drawing comic strips and has mainly worked for the UK girls' titles during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He started as a commercial artist for a Newcastle ad agency while also doing book illustrations. Back in civil life, he went to art school in Middlebrough's Constantine College, where he graduated in Intermediate Arts and Crafts. John Armstrong took art lessons while serving in the UK Army in the Far East.
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