Stella Gibbons full-time writing career. In March 1931 Gibbons had become engaged to Allan Webb, a budding actor and opera singer five years her junior. He was the son of a cricketing parson, and the grandson of Allan Becher Webb, a former Bishop of Bloemfontein who served as Dean of Salisbury Cathedral. On 1 April 1933 the couple were married at St Matthew's, Bayswater. Later that year she learned that "Cold Comfort Farm" had been awarded the "Prix Étranger", the foreign novel category of the prestigious French literary prize, the "Prix Femina". It had won against works by two more experienced writers,
Dave Gibbons "Doctor Who Storybook 2007" (released Christmas 2006) features a story called "Untitled" which includes the name "Gibbons" in a list of great artists of Earth history. Gibbons was one of the British comic talents identified by Len Wein in 1982 for American publisher DC Comics: he was hired primarily to draw "Green Lantern Corps" backup stories within the pages of "Green Lantern". Gibbons' first DC work was on the Green Lantern Corps story in "Green Lantern" No. 161 (February 1983), with writer Todd Klein, as well as the concurrently released "Creeper" two-part backup story in "The Flash" #318–319. Gibbons drew