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This is a somewhat lighthearted and amusing drawing from a very serious artist.
The seated man is Sir David Low, who for many years was one of England's premier editorial cartoonists. The bulk of his career was with the Sydney (Australia) Bulletin, London Star, London Evening Standard, London Daily Herald, and the Manchester Guardian (now the Guardian). His cartoons were so well known that he was on the list of people to be arrested (and presumably executed) if the German invasion of England had come off.
Low liked to put himself in his cartoons, and very often in the 20s and 30s, you would see his terrier, Mussolini, in the cartoons as well. (Which led to some trouble with the Italian government, as described in his memoirs.) However, typically, Low's Saturday cartoon would be light-hearted, in this gentle poke at the saxophone, at that time the bane of many.
There is a website available on line, the British Cartoon Archive, which has nearly the entire run of Low's work.
http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/
The seated man is Sir David Low, who for many years was one of England's premier editorial cartoonists. The bulk of his career was with the Sydney (Australia) Bulletin, London Star, London Evening Standard, London Daily Herald, and the Manchester Guardian (now the Guardian). His cartoons were so well known that he was on the list of people to be arrested (and presumably executed) if the German invasion of England had come off.
Low liked to put himself in his cartoons, and very often in the 20s and 30s, you would see his terrier, Mussolini, in the cartoons as well. (Which led to some trouble with the Italian government, as described in his memoirs.) However, typically, Low's Saturday cartoon would be light-hearted, in this gentle poke at the saxophone, at that time the bane of many.
There is a website available on line, the British Cartoon Archive, which has nearly the entire run of Low's work.
http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/
Category All / Comics
Species Dog (Other)
Size 521 x 600px
File Size 54.8 kB
Trivia: David Low originally came from New Zealand, moving first to Australia then to the UK. His cartoons reputedly pissed Hitler off so much that his name was included in a list of people to be "liquidated" in the event of a successful Nazi invasion of Britain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_.....8cartoonist%29
I was lucky enough to see an exhibition of David Low's work several years ago, and the encouraging thing for me was that even he wasn't above the occasional use of white-out (or equivalent) when inking his cartoons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_.....8cartoonist%29
I was lucky enough to see an exhibition of David Low's work several years ago, and the encouraging thing for me was that even he wasn't above the occasional use of white-out (or equivalent) when inking his cartoons
See my original comment, I note the liquidation wish of Hitler, too.
I didn't list Low's NZ career, generally because it was pretty brief and not in the grand scheme of things important; his breakout really came with the Sydney Bulletin.
I've not seen any Low originals, more's the pity. I don't know how much the use of blue-pencil (like Jim Borgman uses) was used in Low's formative era. Rather doubt it. I have seen some Thomas Nast sketches.
I didn't list Low's NZ career, generally because it was pretty brief and not in the grand scheme of things important; his breakout really came with the Sydney Bulletin.
I've not seen any Low originals, more's the pity. I don't know how much the use of blue-pencil (like Jim Borgman uses) was used in Low's formative era. Rather doubt it. I have seen some Thomas Nast sketches.
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