"Heroes of the Clouds", Eagle, 1950
Kenneth Alexander McDonough was born in Wandsworth, London, on 28 February 1921, son of William L. McDonough and his wife Annie, née Collins. He was best-known as an aviation artist, producing many illustrations for Airfix model kits and Aeromodeller magazine, and wrote and illustrated the book Atlantic Wings (1966). He also drew the educational strip "Heroes of the Clouds" for the Eagle in the early 1950s. He retired to the Royal Star and Garter Home for ex-servicemen in Richmond upon Thames in 2005 following a collapse. He died peacefully on 16 January 2002.
References[]
- Alan Clark, Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors, The British Library, 1998, p. 101
- The AMA History Program Presents: Biography of Ken McDonough, Modelaircraft.org