Magazine covers

[Efrogwr]

A spin-off from the magazines in doctors' waiting rooms and book cover art threads... Is there anything[/i] to compare with the magnificence of J Campbell Kerr's artwork for the Peoples' Friend?

[IanDG]

I always used to take a sneaky look at the covers of 'top shelf' magazines when I was a teenager.

[Quisling]

My mum was a regular reader of People's Friend and the artwork of J Campbell Kerr was always lying around the coffee table or settee at home.

What I didn't realise, was that J Campbell Kerr is a pseudonymic collective of artists, currently numbering four, who all paint under that name.  I feel slightly cheated 

[Cudzoziemiec]

I had to google both the magazine and the artist. Having done so, I recognize the title and its distinctive cover art. The covers do not entice me to the magazine.

[Wascally Weasel]

I have never read it.  My (Scottish) grandmother used to read it - in my head I assume to this day that it's only read by Scottish grandmothers.

[citoyen]

Like this, you mean? https://youtu.be/CGIejhpbWOw


(To answer the question properly, I remember People's Friend - although I never read it myself, I used to deliver it regularly to one of the houses on my paper round, back when I was a spotty oik teenager. The covers did have a certain distinctive style to them. Not that it ever tempted me to look inside and find out more.)