Ronald Forbes

Ronald Forbes (1917-2013).

Ronald was born in Dundee, leaving school at 14 to join DC Thomson as a junior in the art department. Ron served in the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry during the war as a tank driver seeing action in Normandy, Belgium, Holland and Germany.

Following the war, Ron worked as a freelance artist for the Amalgamated Press in London working on the Rover and created Captain Condor. He then moved back to Dundee and DC Thomson, working on comics in Bunty, Judy and Jackie among others.

In 1967 he retrained as an art teacher, but continued with his painting and cartoons into well his nineties.