John Harrold - Artist

Born in Glasgow in 1947, John Harrold is most famous for his drawings of Rupert the Bear. He attended the Glasgow School of Art where he studied painting and drawing. He began his career as an art teacher and had never considered a career in illustration before a designer who admired his work asked him to supply a sample for a Rupert book published by Collins. His first drawing of Rupert was in 1973 for the Daily Mail. In 1976 he created the first Rupert the Bear stories and annual. For the last twenty years John Harrold has created the endpapers and covers for the Rupert Annuals.

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