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Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Artist, Author. (1929-2008) UK illustrator, critic and author; he often used the working name Jim Cawthorn, though he also went by J Cawthorn or simply Cawthorn, and his name was sometimes rendered as Cawthorne.
James Cawthorn (sometimes spelt Cawthorne) was born in Sheffield on 4 November 1719 and died in Tonbridge on 15 April 1761. A school master in holy orders , he was a minor English poet and imitator of Alexander Pope .
James Cawthorn, born 21 December 1929, was a fantasy illustrator, comics artist and writer who worked extensively with writer Michael Moorcock. He met Moorcock through his involvement in science fiction and fantasy fandom.
Sep 17, 2020 · A self-taught, working-class illustrator, Cawthorn seems like a perfect incarnation of that local genius, and in a way his relative anonymity mirrors that of his native land. James Cawthorn: The Man and His Art contains (apparently—I didn’t count) something like 800 color and black and white illustrations that cover his entire career. The ...
Dec 4, 2008 · Jim Cawthorn—illustrator, comic artist and fantasy historian—died this week. Cawthorn was the first illustrator employed by Savoy Books and one of the key factors in drawing me to their doors in the early 1980s.
Jul 12, 2018 · James Cawthorn: The Man and His Art was originally intended to be a modest memorial by Maureen Cawthorn Bell for her artist brother following his death in 2008, but the book grew into a heavyweight volume of 448 pages containing over 800 individual pieces of art: book covers, illustrations for magazines and fanzines, private pieces for friends ...
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In 1976, Cawthorn illustrated Stormbringer, the climax of the Elric series, as a graphic novel for Savoy Books. It was, Davey writes, “somewhat more flawed than definitive”: as the publisher explained in The Man and His Art —a rushed job which the artist attempted to revisit but never felt able to bring to completion.
