Walt Howarth, 1928-2008



Walt Howarth, a prolific illustrator of covers for World Distributors Ltd. and an artist whose signature style when it came to celebrity portraiture thrilled successive generations of young fans, died on March 13 in his hometown of Bolton, Lancashire at the age of 80. His formal career spanned from 1946 to 1993, with some post-retirement additional years of productivity, and covered a variety of subjects, although a number of effusive, excellent and thorough obituaries/tributes out there seem to point towards his Dr. Who work as his most passionately received. Many of the multiple pieces on his passing make the additionally sound point that referencing photo material for covers like Howarth's was at once much more difficult in a time when the original material could be so rare and also tended to be received with more vigorous scrutiny than similar material down now might be because of the relative dearth of official tie-in products and related visual culture -- two factors combining to make Howarth's chosen career one with a high degree of difficulty. He is survived by a wife of 58 years.
 
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