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Garry Cobb Over time, some of my illustrations were lost. Some remained uncollected in cupboards or drawers by the commissioning magazines, others were sold, gifted or perhaps lost in the post. During the 80s, I would take a photocopy of all the illustrations. There is a video of them here. And this is a selection…
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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…