Arthur Ferrier (1891 – 27 May 1973) was a Scottish artist, illustrator and

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. Ferrier was born and started work in Glasgow, Scotland as an analytical chemist. He freelanced as a cartoonist for the '' Daily Record'' there. He moved to London and drew joke cartoons for a number of weekly magazines, including '' Punch'', ''The Humorist'' and '' London Opinion''. In 1930, he produced a weekly strip glamour cartoon called "Film Fanny". A London paper, the ''

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'', published his glamour drawing under the title "Our Dumb Blonde", which ran from 1939 to 1946. A comic strip called "Spotlight on Sally" in the ''Pictorial'' was followed by another called "Eve". In 1941 Arthur Ferrier teamed-up with the well-known glamour photographer

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to produce the book ''Arthur Ferrier's Lovelies Brought to Life by Roye''. It was published by Chapman and Hall. In addition to his printed work, Ferrier also painted during World War I. Some of this work is in the collection of the

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in London. He also produced a set of drawings used on sets of

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ware from the Royal Albert China Collections.

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Arthur Ferrier – Comic creator
(Lambiek comic shop)
Arthur Ferrier
(John Noott Galleries) 20th-century Scottish painters Scottish male painters Scottish editorial cartoonists Scottish illustrators Artists from Glasgow 1973 deaths 1891 births 20th-century Scottish male artists {{Scotland-painter-stub