Word: islington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rare Boys. Giles likes to say that the only art training he ever got was in scrawling naughty words on automobiles in the London working-class suburb of Islington, where he grew up. (His "racing family" refers to his father's occupation as a jockey.) At 14, he got a job sharpening pencils and carrying tea to movie-cartoon animators in Alexander Korda's film company, got his bosses to let him trace some of the smaller details in the thousands of drawings that go to make up a sequence. He taught himself drawing so well that...