Kings and Queens, and Peter and Jane. Hampson was voted Prestigioso Maestro at an international convention of strip cartoon and animated film artists held at Lucca, Tuscany in 1975. A jury of his peers gave him a Yellow Kid Award and declared him to be the best writer and artist of strip cartoons since the end of the Second World War. In 1978 he graduated from the Open University. He celebrated by drawing a Dan Dare strip for the university's internal magazine. The punch line of the script involved the university getting an application from Dare's nemesis The Mekon. In ailing health, Hampson died from a stroke and the lingering effects of throat cancer in July 1985, in Epsom, Surrey, England. References Further reading External links The Artwork of Frank Hampson The Official Frank Hampson website maintained by P & S Hampson The Lost Characters of Frank Hampson Biography of Frank Hampson A complete history of Dan Dare and the Eagle comic at www.dan-dare.net The official Science Museum print website containing a number of Dan Dare posters A Tribute to Frank Hampson 1918 births 1985 deaths British comics artists British comics writers British illustrators British comic strip cartoonists People educated at King George V College Alumni of the Open University People from Audenshaw Eagle (comic) Deaths from cancer in England Deaths from throat cancer