Robert Ayton (illustrator)

Robert Norton Ayton (1915–1985) was a British comics artist and illustrator who worked for the Eagle and Ladybird Books.

He drew "Jack O'Lantern", a historical series about an orphan in the Napoleonic Wars, written by George Beardmore.

When Williams died in 1957, Ayton drew the final episode of his strip, "The Great Sailor", a biography of Lord Nelson.

After two years away from comics, he drew illustrations for Girl, before returning to the Eagle to draw "The Golden Man", a biography of Sir Walter Raleigh written by Guy Daniel and Marcus Morris.

[6] In 1983 he and his wife Joan, who had no children, moved from Bristol to a smaller house in Nailsea, where two years later, aged 70, he died after a heart attack.