 During his twenties numerous of Colin Spencer's drawings were published in "The London Magazine", "The Transatlantic Review" and "Encounter".A series of drawings of writers of our time was published in "The Times Literary Supplement" in 1959.Those he portrayed included John Betjeman, E.M. Forster, C.P.Snow and his wife Pamela Hansford Johnson, Graham Greene, Alan Ross, Iris Murdoch, Angus Wilson, Evelyn Waugh, John Lehmann, Stevie Smith, V.S.Naipaul, and John Osborne, among others.