Tony Weare (1 January 1912 – 2 December 1994) was an English comics artist best known for drawing Matt Marriott, a daily Western strip written by Jim Edgar, which ran in The Evening News from 1955 to 1977.
Tony Weare was born at Wincanton, Somerset,[1] and studied drawing at the Bournemouth School of Art but became a trooper in a cavalry regiment where he developed a love of horses.
He illustrated "The Colditz Story" for Junior Express and was voted Serious Strip Cartoonist of the Year, 1961.
He also had a superb command of light and shade, which promoted the impression that he was drawing something he could see in front of him, rather than something he'd built up from his imagination.
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