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William Edward Tidy, MBE (9 October 1933 – 11 March 2023) was a British cartoonist, writer and television personality, known chiefly for his comic strips.He was noted for his charitable work, particularly for the Lord's Taverners, which he supported for over 30 years.
This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons.This list includes only notable cartoonists and is not meant to be exhaustive. Note that the word 'cartoon' only took on its modern sense after its use in Punch magazine in the 1840s - artists working earlier than that are more correctly termed 'caricaturists',
George Cruikshank or Cruickshank (/ ˈ k r ʊ k ʃ æ ŋ k / KRUUK-shank; 27 September 1792 – 1 February 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reached an international audience.
In the Jungle - Working on a Cutting. Rock Clearing after Blasting, 1943. Although Searle published the first St Trinian's cartoon in the magazine Lilliput in 1941, his professional career really begins with his documentation of the brutal camp conditions of his period as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese in World War II in a series of drawings that he hid under the mattresses of prisoners ...
World War II propaganda poster by Fougasse. Cyril Kenneth Bird CBE (17 December 1887 – 11 June 1965), known by the pen name Fougasse, was a British cartoonist.. He was perhaps best known for his work in Punch magazine (of which he served as editor from 1949 to 1953) and his World War II warning propaganda posters; "Careless talk costs lives" was one of the most popular.
Pages in category "British comics writers" The following 126 pages are in this category, out of 126 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Freddie Adkins;
William Heath Robinson was born in Hornsey Rise, London, on 31 May 1872 [4] into a family of artists in Stroud Green, Finsbury Park, North London. His grandfather Thomas, his father Thomas Robinson (1838–1902) and brothers Thomas Heath Robinson (1869–1954) and Charles Robinson (1870–1937) all worked as illustrators.
George Goodwin Butterworth (1905–1988) worked as a British political, strip and sports cartoonist, and later a book illustrator.He often used the byline "GGB." During World War II his cartoon Maltese Cross in the Daily Dispatch gave groundswell to the island receiving the George Cross for heroism in April 1942.