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Here are some covers from the Toytown magazines. illustrated by Ernest Noble. More Noble
S.G.Hulme
Beaman (1887 - 1932)
Began his career making puppets and toy theatres, while going to Heatherley's
Art School (Evelyn Waugh was a pupil there later). He devised the immensely
popular puppet and comic character of Larry the Lamb and other denizens
of Toytown . He graphic style is a characteristic blocky, ersatz Cubist
style, which is often highly inventive, and brightly coloured.
BOTTOM ROW picture of unknown and undated
publication found in a scrap album with two images from Tales
of Toytown, written and illustrated by SHB, London 1946. Measures
9 x 14cms.
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