Campion - Rip Van Winkle

Another Geoff Campion (1916-1997) spot illustration for Look and Learn issue 17 (12 May 1962) - for the story of Rip Van Winkle. Geoff Campion brought real punch and vigour into British adventure comics. His characters would charge straight at the reader on horseback or throw an enemy bodily at him. All through the 1950s and 1960s, it was the policy at Fleetway House that their action artists based their styles on the work of Campion. As one editor put it: "When I get a prospective artist in here, I give him a handful of Campion's strips and tell him to draw it exactly like that and you've got it made." But no one could do it quite like Campion could.