{{short description|British artist (born 1941)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox comics creator | image = | imagesize = 150 | caption = | birth_name = | birth_place = London, U.K. | death_place = | nationality = British | cartoonist = | write = | art = y | pencil = | ink = | edit = | publish = | letter = | color = | alias = | signature = <!-- very optional --> | notable works = ''The Medieval Soldier''<br />Time Machine | awards = | website = {{URL|http://www.gerryembleton.com}} | nonUS = y }} '''Gerry Embleton''' (born 1941)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11901713c |title=Notice de personne 'Embleton, Gerry (1941-....)' |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |lang=fr}} Also stated by other authority control sources.</ref> is a British artist, born in London. He is best known as an illustrator of military and historic subjects. He has illustrated more than 40 titles for the military publisher Osprey.<ref name=MilitarHeritage /> He is the younger brother of illustrator Ron Embleton.<ref>[http://lambiek.net/artists/e/embleton_gerry.htm Comic creator: Gerry Embleton], Lambiek's Comiclopedia</ref>
==Career== Embleton began as a comic strip artist, and worked on ''Look and Learn'' and ''TV Century 21'' in the 1960s. He created the World War II science fiction strip ''Phantom Patrol'' for Odhams Press' ''Swift'' in 1962;<ref>[http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/p/phantompatrol.htm "Phantom Patrol,"] ''International Catalogue of Superheroes''. Retrieved Feb. 10, 2021.</ref> it was reprinted as ''The Ghost Patrol'' in ''Smash!'' in 1966.<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2016/01/50-year-flashback-smash-no1.html|title=BLIMEY! The Blog of British Comics: 50 Year Flashback: SMASH! No.1|first=Lew|last=Stringer|date=31 January 2016}}</ref>
Embleton was the first artist to work on the new ''Dan Dare'' in the revived ''Eagle'', published by IPC Magazines in 1982. This Dan Dare was the original's eponymous great-great-grandson, taking on the mantle of space explorer. Set 200 years after the original story, the first story-arc featured the return of Dan Dare's earliest nemesis, The Mekon.
In 1983, Embleton moved to Switzerland,<ref name=MilitarHeritage>''Military Heritage'' (Dec. 2006), p. 43</ref> and later began working in children's educational illustrations and then advertising.
In 1998, he founded a company called Time Machine that works with museums all over the world, specializing in vivid displays with 3D figurines.<ref name=MilitarHeritage />
Gerry Embleton is a founding member of the Company of Saynt George, a living-history association.<ref>''The Company of Saynt George''. Miroque. 2011, Iss. 4, p. 121.</ref> His 1995 book ''The Medieval Soldier'', co-authored with Tolkien illustrator John Howe, had a big influence on the living-history hobby as a whole.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}
He lives in Prêles near Neuchâtel. He also paints landscapes.
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==External links== *{{official website|http://www.gerryembleton.com}} *[http://www.time-machine.ch Time-Machine website] *[http://www.dandare.org.uk/DanDareReprint1.htm Reprint of "Return of the Mekon" from 1982] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070817024232/http://www.technodelic.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Upload03/Stingray02.htm Stingray comic archive including Embleton's work] *[http://www.lookandlearn.com/cgi-bin/if.cgi?search=Gerry+Embleton&cat=&x=19&y=11 Look and Learn archive search] * {{Helveticat}}
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