Jim Watson, artist

Jim Watson who drew comic strips for D.C. Thomson comics (including The Victor), as well as titles for other publishers, has recently passed away.

For an appreciation of his life and his work please visit the Down the Tubes website via the following links for articles written by John Freeman and Colin Noble.

Below are several episodes of stories illustrated by Watson for the Victor comic, plus a link to another page on this website for his work on a Hotspur (second series) comic, Bishop’s Boffins. The episodes can be found towards the bottom of the page after the interview with the writer Chris Fitzsimons.

The following pages of artwork from the Victor of are from issues 1164 and 1265.

***Please note that I am using a standard thumbnail image for all the full size pictures on this page. This is purely being done to save myself sometime.***