Keith Watson

Keith Watson (1st Feb 1935-9th Apr 1994) was a comics artist best known for his work on Dan Dare in both the original Eagle (beginning in 1958) and, decades later, the new Eagle (from 1989). He also worked on rival strip Captain Condor for Lion, and on Captain Scarlet and Joe 90 in TV Century 21, as well as the Dutch series Roel Dijkstra in the 1970s. He died of cancer on the 9th April 1994, aged just 59.