[citation needed] Like Alex Raymond and Milton Caniff in the U.S., Hampson instituted a studio system where, originally in Southport and later from his home in Epsom, Surrey, as many as four artists might work on two pages of the strip at any one time.
[citation needed] He drew The Road of Courage, a carefully researched and meticulously crafted telling of the life of Jesus, with the help of his longtime assistant, Joan Porter, which concluded at Easter 1961.
Hampson was voted Prestigioso Maestro at an international convention of strip cartoon and animated film artists held at Lucca, Tuscany in 1975.
A jury of his peers gave him a Yellow Kid Award and declared him to be the best writer and artist of strip cartoons since the end of the Second World War.
In ailing health, Hampson died from a stroke and the lingering effects of throat cancer in July 1985, in Epsom, Surrey, England.