Carol Day #1332.................................... David Wright had a facility for drawing women that quickly caught the eye of both agents and clients, so the man who had aspired to be a technical illustrator, by the outbreak of World War II became Great Britain's foremost pin-up artist. His pictures of beautiful women came to be called â"lovelies" and were  an immensely popular feature of "The Sketch". He later became highly sought after fashion illustrator and then comic artist...........................  Wright's brilliance at drawing and storytelling art permeates every frame of Carol Day, his comic strip masterpiece featured in The Daily Mail, which he worked on until his passing in 1967. He would pencil just enough to establish the positions of his characters, then go directly into the art with a #2 sable brush. When this was finished, he would begin the process of building the complex and varied layers of ink textures and cross hatching that described the final image in a sort of visual tone feast. Prior to the last 2 years of the strip, he eschewed the American comics method of  glued down zipatone in favor of hand creating these rich surface textures. 

...................This is the last daily from the Off Stage story, so it's from a seldom offered tale. Appropriately for the end of the story, the art features the final parting of Carol and main character Peter Castle. All three panels are superb (beautiful light effects), but my favorite is the first panel--cross hatch portraits of Carol are hard to top. The third panel features Carol with Paul Egan (Problem Child) and sets up the next story, Emergency. There is a note stating "End of Story" written in the bottom border. As with all Carol Days, this art is drawn on illustration board. Both the image and board are in excellent condition. There is some minor white out use in the piece  (see scans). But other than that the art is in top shape.......................... 


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