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As an illustrator of teenage magazine love stories, a commission to draw a girl in a shower was promptly returned after it appeared the girl might be showering without a bra, and I was warned not to draw boys with bare chests! I’m dipping into history to find out what was going on… Garry Cobb…
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Music fuels my inspiration to illustrate love stories. But finding the romantic tracks I liked has not always been easy. Garry Cobb During the sixties, the Musician’s Union imposed restrictions on the amount of recorded music you could hear on the BBC. These ‘needle-time’ restrictions forced the BBC’s Light Programme to replace hits in its…
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How the notorious ‘stabilisation’ regime of the sixties inspired me to draw. Garry Cobb I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1966. At the time, people who lived with diabetes were often interned in hospital for weeks at a time for ‘stabilisation’. I was one of those victims at the age of eleven; confined…