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Description
Opening episode for the JEFF HAWKE story, 'The Dear, Dead Days' (1979).
Artist Sydney Jordan recollects . . .
"Once in the dear dead days beyond recall . . . " is from 'Just a Song at Twilight' as most of you will know. Having lived the first four years of my life in a house lit by gas mantles and next door to my widowed grandmother, whose style of dress and furnishing was resolutely Victorian, I had and still have a built-in fascination with what L. Ron Hubbard called "the beautiful sadness", the unashamed sentiment surrounding life, death and the human condition in Victorian times. Whilst hoping to steer clear of mawkish romanticism, I was free to indulge this passion for the poignant and lyrical. That it involved a twenty-first century android woman flying a Sopwith Camel just goes to show how anything can happen in Hawke's Cosmos!
Artist Sydney Jordan recollects . . .
"Once in the dear dead days beyond recall . . . " is from 'Just a Song at Twilight' as most of you will know. Having lived the first four years of my life in a house lit by gas mantles and next door to my widowed grandmother, whose style of dress and furnishing was resolutely Victorian, I had and still have a built-in fascination with what L. Ron Hubbard called "the beautiful sadness", the unashamed sentiment surrounding life, death and the human condition in Victorian times. Whilst hoping to steer clear of mawkish romanticism, I was free to indulge this passion for the poignant and lyrical. That it involved a twenty-first century android woman flying a Sopwith Camel just goes to show how anything can happen in Hawke's Cosmos!
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A propos de Sydney Jordan
Sydney Jordan est né à Dundee (Royaume Uni). Au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Sydney Jordan, jeune ingénieur en aéronautique, devient l’assistant du dessinateur Len Fullerton et travaille comme illustrateur pour l’agence Amalgamated Press, qu’il quitte en 1952 pour la Man’s World. Il y donne naissance à la série Dick Hercules et commence à collaborer au Daily Express, où il crée et anime, avec le scénariste Eric Souster bientôt remplacé par Willie Patterson, les aventures d’un pilote de la RAF, Jeff Hawke. Cette série de science-fiction très populaire est publiée jusqu’en 1974 dans The Daily Express et se poursuit dans Alter Linus en Italie. Jeff Hawke est repris dans Charlie mensuel à partir de 1971 et Glénat en publie plusieurs recueils à la fin des années soixante-dix.
