Cavalier Fashion

This photo of a Dan Dare inspired 1958 annual called ‘Step Into The Future’ was drawn by the artist, Keith Watson in the late nineteen eighties as part of an advertising campaign which included TV spots promoting the apparent advanced innovations of the Vauxhall Cavalier. It was part of a four page pamphlet loosely inserted into various magazines - I seem to recall finding this example in the Radio Times.

A ‘Motor-Car of Tomorrow’ which was shown on the inside flaps, remarkably had pretty much the same features as the new Cavalier.

Keith, as many of you comic fans will know, joined the Eagle in 1958 as an assistant artist. He drew Captain Condor in the Lion before returning to Eagle, drawing Dan Dare on the front cover. He worked for City Magazines providing artwork for Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons in TV21, and the title character in Joe 90: Top Secret.

His last work can be seen posthumously in the first edition of the Eagle inspired, ’Spaceship Away' magazine published in 2003.

Sadly, Keith died in 1994

Further info on Keith Watson can be found at the Eagle Times blogspot  http://eagle-times.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/eagle-artists-keith-watson.html