Changes: Mike Hubbard (1902-1976)

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Ernest Michael Hubbard (1904-1976) was born and trained in Dublin before joining Dean's Studios. He drew illustrations for The Thriller in the 1930s, including covers. He was assistant to Norman Pett on the Daily Mirror cheesecake strip Jane, and took over the strip from Pett in 1948, drawing it until it finished in 1959.

He drew adventure strips for Amalgamated Press' Knockout in the 1940s and Sun in the 1950s. In the 1960s and 70s he painted colour adaptations of classic stories like H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines and R. M. Ballantyne's Coral Island for The Ranger (he had drawn another version of Coral Island for Knockout in 1946) and Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden for Princess Tina. He also drew "Jane Bond, Secret Agent", for Princess Tina. An unfinished adaptation of Richard Doddridge Blackmore's Lorna Doone, intended for Princess Tina, was probably his last work before he died.

He also excelled as a portrait painter, and was an expert in the history of architecture.

Comics bibliography

"Treasure Island" (Knockout, 1945', reprinted in Thriller Picture Library, 1951)
"Coral Island" (Knockout, 1946)
"Robin Hood" (Knockout, 1947)
"Sindbad the Sailor" (Knockout, 1947)
"Marco Polo" (Knockout, 1948)
Jane (Daily Mirror, 1948-1959)
"Red River" (Knockout, 1949)
"The Adventures of Marco Polo" (Sun, 1954)
"King Solomon's Mines" (The Ranger, 1965-66)
"Jane Bond" (Tina, Princess Tina, 1967-1970)
"Coral Island" (The Ranger)
"The Secret Garden" (Princess Tina)

Strips in:

June
Pixie
Poppet

External links

Mike Hubbard, Michael Hubbard galleries at Look and Learn
Mike Hubbard art at The Book Palace
Jane Bond on WikiPF (in French)
Mike Hubbard art at Illustration Art Gallery
Biography at Illustration Art Gallery

References

Alan Clark, Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors, British Library, 1998, pp. 81-82

Online reference

Michael Hubbard on Lambiek

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 '''Ernest Michael Hubbard''' (1904-1976) was born and trained in Dublin before joining Dean's Studios. He drew illustrations for ''The Thriller'' in the 1930s, including covers. He was assistant to Norman Pett on the ''Daily Mirror'' cheesecake strip ''Jane'', and took over the strip from Pett in 1948, drawing it until it finished in 1959.
-He drew adventure strips for Amalgamated Press' ''Knockout'' in the 1940s and ''Sun'' in the 1950s. In the 1960s and 70s he painted colour adaptations of classic stories like H. Rider Haggard's ''King Solomon's Mines'' and R. M. Ballantyne's ''Coral Island'' for ''The Ranger'' (he had drawn another version of ''Coral Island'' for ''Knockout'' in 1946) and Frances Hodgson Burnett's ''The Secret Garden'' for ''Princess Tina''. An unfinished adaptation of Richard Doddridge Blackmore's ''Lorna Doone'', intended for ''Princess Tina'', was probably his last work before he died.
+He drew adventure strips for Amalgamated Press' ''Knockout'' in the 1940s and ''Sun'' in the 1950s. In the 1960s and 70s he painted colour adaptations of classic stories like H. Rider Haggard's ''King Solomon's Mines'' and R. M. Ballantyne's ''Coral Island'' for ''The Ranger'' (he had drawn another version of ''Coral Island'' for ''Knockout'' in 1946) and Frances Hodgson Burnett's ''The Secret Garden'' for ''Princess Tina''. He also drew "Jane Bond, Secret Agent", for ''Princess Tina''. An unfinished adaptation of Richard Doddridge Blackmore's ''Lorna Doone'', intended for ''Princess Tina'', was probably his last work before he died.
 He also excelled as a portrait painter, and was an expert in the history of architecture.