Tony Weare

Tony Weare was an English comics artist born on 1 January 1912 in Wincanton, Somerset. He studied drawing at Bournemouth School of Art before serving as a trooper in a cavalry regiment, an experience that fostered a lifelong affinity for horses. Weare is best known for drawing the daily Western strip *Matt Marriott*, written by Jim Edgar, which ran in *The Evening News* from 1955 to 1977. Earlier, he contributed to *Mickey Mouse Weekly* with strips such as "Billy Brave," "Pride of the Circus," "Savage Splendour," and "Robin Alone." He also illustrated "The Colditz Story" for *Junior Express* and was named Serious Strip Cartoonist of the Year in 1961. In the 1980s, he drew the serial "Rookwood" for *Look and Learn* and contributed a few sequences to Alan Moore and David Lloyd's *V for Vendetta* at Lloyd's invitation. Fellow artist David Lloyd praised Weare as an illustrator who drew from observation rather than stylization, with a masterful command of light and shadow. Our catalog credits him as artist, inker, or letterer on 34 issues from 1969 to 1989, with titles including *Albi dell'Avventura*, *Daily Strips*, and *Westernserier*. Tony Weare died on 2 December 1994.