Daniel Rebour - Illustrator. Who's your favourite cycling illustrator/Cartoonist?

[Canuk]

Loving this thread .

No idea who's work this was .

https://flic.kr/p/48H1rn

I've no idea at all about British illustrators. What is clear from Rebours story is although there was a good bit of travel involved (AFAIK only Europe and the UK) it wasn't particularly well paid, and he wasn't allowed (in Le Cycle magazine at least) to write any of the copy. So he wouldn't have been considered a 'cycling journalist', though without him, they'd have been knackered for print! I reckon he probably did more for the European cycle trade than any magazine ever did. Ideale named a saddle after him! That's not bad going.

Black and white pages were the order of the day in pre 1970, because it was cheap presumably and only front covers or 'specials' plates in the interior were ever in full colour.

 

[Canuk]

Quite into cars apparently also, though again from research this was not particularly well paid. He probably had to get through dozens of illustrations each week to get a decent living out of it.

 

[Canuk]

Mini and micro cars.

 

[Old Ned]

Which is my favourite?

ALL OF THEM!!

 

[Canuk]

I really like this Tour of Mallorca, it's from 1968. No idea who the artist is...

 

[Canuk]

Another fine Rebour. First generation Gran Sport with the little holes in the jockey wheels.

 

[Canuk]

Who can forget the brilliant Johnny Helms, cartoonist to Cycling Weekly: Winter puncture!

 

[zerogravitas]

I am a huge fan of Daniel Rebour's amazing draftsmanship. Its a shame there is not a decent coffee table book currently available of his work...

There is this one; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rebour-Rob-Van-Plas/dp/1892495813 ..but it is out of print, expensive, and reviewers note the paper quality/printing is poor, the last thing his fine illustrations deserve!

 

[Canuk]

I am a huge fan of Daniel Rebour's amazing draftsmanship. Its a shame there is not a decent coffee table book currently available of his work...

There is this one; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rebour-Rob-Van-Plas/dp/1892495813 ..but it is out of print, expensive, and reviewers note the paper quality/printing is poor, the last thing his fine illustration work deserves!

Yes, I'm amazed there isn't a heavy tome dedicated to his work. He pretty much catalogued and defined graphic art in cycling from 1950-1975, without any equal. And as said up thread, it was not particularly well paid work, the scribblers who did the annotations apparently were unionised and got three times as much as Rebour per item. Poor fella, I just imagine him ink drawing by candlelight in some dingey top floor one bedroom flat in a rougher arrondissement of Paris...

 

[Canuk]

There's a few Japanese coffee table books feature Rebour drawings, but nothing definitive. I remember Blackbirds.org having quite a few pages dedicated to him. Oh, and a certain Ukrainian outfit is making good on eBay with A2 and A1 enlargements of his Campagnolo group set posters. Such is life!