Brian Lewis

Brian Moncrieff Lewis (3 June 1929 – 4 December 1978) was a British science fiction illustrator, comics artist, and animator. In the 1950s, he illustrated covers for pulp magazines like New Worlds, Science Fantasy, and Science Fiction Adventures. In the 1960s, he drew adventure comic strips for Tiger, Boys' World, Lion, Hurricane, and Eagle. He also used a more cartoony style to draw humor comic strips for Wham!, Smash, Cor!!, and Buster. In the 1970s, Lewis focused on comics adaptations of television and horror film properties.

Biography Lewis served in the Royal Air Force, and became involved in science fiction fandom in the early 1950s.

His first professional illustration was for the Radio Times, and he began contributing to New Worlds in 1954, painting forty covers for the magazine. He also painted 21 covers for Science Fantasy, 19 for Science Fiction Adventures and a few for Digit Books between 1957 and 1962.

His first work in comics was the strip Magna Carta for Lone Star in 1959. In the early 1960s, he drew adventure strips Jet Ace Logan, The Suicide Six, Paddy Ryan, Memorable Moments in Sport, and The Destroyer from the Depths for Tiger; Captain Condor for Lion; John Brody He also drew the illustrations for a Supercar storybook.

Around 1966, he moved into animation, working on films such as Yellow Submarine. and Mark Strong in Look-in. In 1978, he had a brief stint on Dan Dare in 2000 AD, drew two strips in the Van der Valk annual, and produced some technical illustrations for Harry Harrison's book Mechanismo: An Illustrated Manual of Science Fiction Hardware.

Death He died on 4 December 1978. His final published work appeared in Halls of Horror vol. 3, #5 (issue #29) (1984), a story originally produced in 1978.

Awards Lewis was nominated for "Favourite British Artist" in the 1978 Eagle Awards.