Roy ullyett autobiography for kids

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Roy Ullyett was born in Leytonstone, Essex, on 16 March 1914, the son of Henry John Emerson Ullyett, Secretary-Manager of the sports equipment manufacturer Slazenger.

Ullyett’s first cartoons were of his teachers at Earls Colne boarding school in Halstead, Essex, and when he was thirteen his first published cartoon appeared in the school magazine, The Colonian. While still at school he also won a prize for a national advertising competition organised by British Fisheries, but his teachers did not encourage art as a career.

Roy ullyett autobiography for kids

As his art teacher told him, “You have talent, Ullyett, but you are far too frivolous to ever make an impact in the art world.”

In 1930 Ullyett left school to work briefly in the art department of a commercial printing company, and then became a freelance cartoonist.

In 1932 he sold his first drawing to the Southend Times, and afterwards he began to draw for other publications including Wireless Weekly. A fri