"from the Evening Standard and The Manchester Guardian, as well as original caricatures from his ""New Statesman"" series. Australia David Low (cartoonist) Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (7 April 1891 – 19 September 1963) was a New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years. Low was a self-taught cartoonist. Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney in 1911, and ultimately to London (1919), where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his merciless satirising of the personalities and"
"by Albert Barnes, followed by ""The Beano"", edited by George Moonie, in 1938. ""The Magic Comic"", for slightly younger readers, followed in 1939 but folded in 1941 due to paper shortages. The next comic launched was ""The Topper"" in 1953. Also in 1953, Low co-created ""Roger the Dodger"", with artist Ken Reid, for ""The Beano"". R. D. Low Robert Duncan Low (25 August 1895, Dundee – 13 December 1980) was a Scottish comics writer and editor. Employed by D. C. Thomson & Co., he was responsible for their line of comics, and, as a writer, co-created ""Oor Wullie"" and ""The"
"British cartoonist David Low. He left the army in 1946. In 1947 with the death of his father he briefly took over the family textile business. In 1948 studied at the school of Boston Museum of Fine Art and also in that year he began working for Montreal Standard. In 1950 he continued his course of study at the Ontario College of Art. In 1958 he joined the Toronto Star. In 1965 he exhibited his work at the Art Gallery of Toronto (later named the Art Gallery of Ontario). In 1980 he retired from the Toronto Star for the first"
"World War II. His stinging depictions of Hitler and Mussolini led to his work being banned in Italy and Germany, and his being named in The Black Book. The son of chemist David Brown Low and Jane Caroline Flanagan, David Low was born in Dunedin on 7 April 1891, and attended primary school there. His family later moved to Christchurch, where Low briefly attended Christchurch Boys' High School. However following the death of his eldest brother, Low was taken out of school, as his parents believed that he had been weakened by over studying. Low's first cartoon was published in"
"the 1950 King's Birthday Honours Minhinnick was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and in 1976 was knighted (KBE) for his services to cartooning. Grant (1987) describes Minhinnick as ""pre-eminent among New Zealand cartoonists. His work for the country's largest newspaper was widely syndicated and of a consistently high standard; witty rather than barbed, and with a feel for caricature that gave the cartoons an added dimension"". Minhinnick was strongly influenced by New Zealand cartoonist David Low, and was offered, but declined, Low's job at the London Evening Standard when Low left the London newspaper in"
"must march solidly behind them."" Blimp is usually depicted speaking to a cartoon version of David Low, the cartoon's creator, and Blimp's comments are not infrequently directed at the opinions of Lord Beaverbrook, the owner of the newspaper in which the cartoon appeared. Blimp was a satire on the reactionary opinions of the British establishment of the 1930s and 1940s. The cartoon was intended to criticize attitudes of isolationism, impatience with the concerns of common people, and a lack of enthusiasm for democracy. These were attitudes which Low, a New Zealander, considered as being common in British politics. Although Low"
"also found the time to escape from prison camp and, along with some fellow-escapees, designed and began building a boat with the intention of sailing to Australia. The Japanese waited until the band of men were low with dysentery before coming to pick them up and take them back to prison camp. Scales was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1983 New Year Honours, for service as a cartoonist. He died in Motueka in 2003. Sid Scales Sydney Ernest ""Sid"" Scales (17 July 1916 – 7 March 2003) was a New Zealand cartoonist. Born"
"R. D. Low Robert Duncan Low (25 August 1895, Dundee – 13 December 1980) was a Scottish comics writer and editor. Employed by D. C. Thomson & Co., he was responsible for their line of comics, and, as a writer, co-created ""Oor Wullie"" and ""The Broons"" with artist Dudley D. Watkins. The son of Alexander Brown Low, a jute mill mechanic, and Maggie Wilson Low, he joined DC Thomson as a journalist and rose to become managing editor in charge of the children's publications department. Having launched the ""big five"" story papers ""Adventure"" (1921), ""The Rover"" (1922), ""The Wizard"" (1923),"
"Guardian"" described him as ""the dominant cartoonist of the western world"". A blue plaque commemorates Low at 33 Melbury Court, Kensington. Low married Madeline Grieve Kenning of Auckland on 7 June 1920 in St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden; they lived for many years in Golders Green, North London. The couple had two daughters: in 1939, Time described Low's breakfast as ""a political meeting, with the cartoonist, his wife, and his two young daughters threshing out the news."" His wife and daughters survived him. United Kingdom Political Cartoon Gallery 16 Lower Richmond Road, London SW15 1JP Collection of Low's original cartoons"
"1902, when he was 11 years old, a three-picture strip in the British comic ""Big Budget"". Low began his career as a professional cartoonist with the ""Canterbury Times"" in 1910. In 1911 he moved to Sydney, Australia to join ""The Bulletin"". During his employment at ""The Bulletin"", Low became well known for a 1916 cartoon satirising Billy Hughes, then the Prime Minister of Australia, entitled ""The Imperial Conference"". After that success, Low published many cartoons depicting Hughes' forceful and eccentric personality. Hughes was not impressed and apparently called Low a ""bastard"" to his face. A collection of Low's cartoons of"
"The accident-prone Corporal was often seen driving an Army Jeep, with the oft-viewed ICU2 number-plate. Corporal Clott Corporal Clott was a strip in the British comic ""The Dandy"". It started in the issued dated 12 November 1960 (issue 990) and was drawn by Dennis the Menace artist David Law. The strip was drawn by David Law until issue 1496 dated 25 July 1970. The strip continued after David Law left it with these strips being drawn by Bully Beef and Chips artist Jimmy Hughes. Jimmy Hughes version of the strip ended in the 1970s however the strip was revived in"
"""Muzzler"". After the war, Low is said to have found his name in ""The Black Book"", the list of those the Nazis planned to arrest in the aftermath of an invasion of Great Britain. His works are featured in many British history textbooks. On 1 September, the Germans invaded Poland from the west and, on 17 September, the Soviets invaded from the east. Low depicted these events in one of his most famous cartoons, ""Rendezvous"", first published in the ""Evening Standard"" on 20 September 1939. It satirises the cynicism which lay at the heart of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, showing Hitler"
"Robert D. Buchanan Robert D. Buchanan (born 17 August 1931) is a creator of several animated TV shows in the 1950s and 1960s. Most notably, he created the five-minute cartoon ""Colonel Bleep"", the first color cartoon produced for television. Produced at Soundac Studios in Miami, Colonel Bleep was syndicated in 1957. In 1965, Buchanan co-produced another animated series, ""Mighty Mr. Titan"". Soundac also produced ""Weather Man"", a series of short animated clips for stations that relied on Weather Bureau forecasts to relay the weather. Buchanan and Soundac ceased operations in the early 1970s. Master tapes of his productions were stolen"
"also produced by Connelly and Mosher. Calvin and the Colonel Calvin and the Colonel is an animated cartoon television series in 1961 about Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon, a shrewd fox and Calvin T. Burnside, a dumb bear. Their lawyer was Oliver Wendell Clutch, who was a weasel (literally). The colonel lived with his wife Maggie Belle and her sister Susan Culpepper, who did not trust the colonel at all. Colonel Klaxon was in the real estate business, but always tried get-rich-quick schemes with Calvin's unwitting help. The series was an animated remake of ""Amos 'n' Andy"" [or, more or less,"
"of Rudolf Erich Raspe. The Englishness of the commander, the reluctance of his audience to listen to his far-fetched stories, and the commander's insistence on telling them, suggest the influence of P.G. Wodehouse's ""Oldest Member"" golf stories as well. Other influences include the early animated character Colonel Heeza Liar, the subject of a number of animated shorts created by John R. Bray and directed by Walter Lantz, who was later known for the Woody Woodpecker franchise. Another influence may have been Captain Geoffrey Spicer-Simson DSO, RN, a career Royal Navy officer noted for telling of his improbable exploits whose career"
"Combat Colin Combat Colin is a slapstick comedy adventure comic strip created, written and drawn by humour comic artist/writer Lew Stringer. It appeared in a number of Marvel UK titles. ""Combat Colin"" appeared as a back-up humour strip in ""Action Force"" comic in the 1980s. Stringer had a back-up story, ""Robocapers"" in ""The Transformers"" and was asked if he could come up with something similar for ""Action Force"" and he came up with a story about a character who was originally named ""Dimbo"" when he submitted it. The story then moved over to ""The Transformers"" comic for a popular run."
"during the closedown process, and as a result, only a portion of the company's productions remain: roughly a fourth of ""Colonel Bleep"" episodes, and one black-and-white kinescope reel of ""Weather Man"" clips (""Mighty Mr. Titan"" is believed to be mostly intact). Robert D. Buchanan Robert D. Buchanan (born 17 August 1931) is a creator of several animated TV shows in the 1950s and 1960s. Most notably, he created the five-minute cartoon ""Colonel Bleep"", the first color cartoon produced for television. Produced at Soundac Studios in Miami, Colonel Bleep was syndicated in 1957. In 1965, Buchanan co-produced another animated series, ""Mighty"
"than star-driven. Some typical examples are ""The Cat Creeps"" (1930), a remake of ""The Cat and the Canary"", ""The Monster Walks"" (1932), ""Night of Terror"" (1933) with Bela Lugosi, and ""One Frightened Night"" (1935). The 1930s was the era of the elegant gentleman detective who solved drawing-room whodunit murders using his wits rather than his fists. Most were well-to-do amateur sleuths who solved crimes for their own amusement, carried no weapons, and often had quirky or eccentric personality traits. This type of crime-fighter fell out of fashion in the 1940s as a new breed of tough, hardboiled professional private detectives"
"Calvin and the Colonel Calvin and the Colonel is an animated cartoon television series in 1961 about Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon, a shrewd fox and Calvin T. Burnside, a dumb bear. Their lawyer was Oliver Wendell Clutch, who was a weasel (literally). The colonel lived with his wife Maggie Belle and her sister Susan Culpepper, who did not trust the colonel at all. Colonel Klaxon was in the real estate business, but always tried get-rich-quick schemes with Calvin's unwitting help. The series was an animated remake of ""Amos 'n' Andy"" [or, more or less, ""Andy and The Kingfish""] and featured"
"his short film series. In his 1950s cartoons, he usually played a character called George Geef or G.G. Geef. Sources from the ""Goof Troop"" continuity give the character's full name as G. G. ""Goofy"" Goof, likely in reference to the 1950s name. In many other sources, both animated and comics, the surname Goof continues to be used. In other 2000s-era comics, the character's full name has occasionally been given as Goofus D. Dawg. Of Disney studio animators, Art Babbitt is most regarded for the creation of the Goofy character, while original concept drawings were by Frank Webb. In a 1930s"
"spinoffs popularized the idea of a masked avenger and the superhero trope of a secret identity. Shortly afterward, masked and costumed pulp fiction characters such as Jimmie Dale/the Gray Seal (1914), Zorro (1919), The Shadow (1930) and comic strip heroes, such as the Phantom (1936) began appearing, as did non-costumed characters with super strength, including Patoruzú (1928), the comic-strip character Popeye (1929) and novelist Philip Wylie's character Hugo Danner (1930). In the 1930s, both trends came together in some of the earliest superpowered costumed heroes such as Japan's Ōgon Bat (visualized in painted panels used by kamishibai oral storytellers in"
"Colin Wilson (comics) Colin Wilson (born 31 October 1949) is a New Zealand comic book artist. He is known for his detailed artwork which he used in ""2000 AD"" stories like ""Rogue Trooper"" and ""Judge Dredd"". According to Andy Diggle, the ""2000 AD"" editor who got him back to the title in the late nineties and has worked with him since, ""no one ... draws near-future military hardware like him"". Wilson has also had success in the French comics field, working on his own title ""Dans l'Ombre du Soleil"", as well as having runs on well-established titles, like ""Blueberry"". David"
"General Jumbo was the inspiration of several other characters in British comics, including: General Jumbo General Jumbo (called Admiral Jumbo for a brief period in the early 1970s) was a British comic strip, published in the comics magazine ""The Beano"" and originally drawn by Paddy Brennan and, subsequently, by Sandy Calder. It debuted in 1953. Alfie ""Jumbo"" Johnson was a 12-year-old boy who served as ""general"" to a remote control model army, navy and air force created by scientist Professor Carter. He also appeared in Nutty and Buddy in the early 1980s. The Buddy version called him Jimmy instead of"
"Colonel Crackpot's Circus Colonel Crackpot's Circus was a British comic strip, published from 1960 until 1963 in ""The Beano"". It was the first Beano comic strip drawn by Malcolm Judge, who later went on to draw ""Billy Whizz"" and ""Ball Boy"" for the same comic, as well as ""The Numskulls"" for ""The Beezer."" The strip was about a circus and the slapstick adventures of the circus folk and often involved Colonel Crackpot (the circus ringleader) trying not to pay his workforce what they were worth. In its Beano incarnation the main characters were Colonel Crackpot (the ringleader), Charlie Globes (the"
"are samples of the presence of cockfighting in visual arts. The Expressionist painter Sir Robin Philipson, of Edinburgh, was well known for his series of works that included depictions of cockfighting. The 1930 cartoon ""Mexico"" shows Oswald the Lucky Rabbit challenging a bear in a cockfight. The 1938 cartoon ""Honduras Hurricane"" features the pirate John Silver forcing Captain Katzenjammer into a rigged cockfight. Other cartoon depictions portray humanized roosters treating cockfights like boxing matches; these cartoons include Disney's ""Cock o' the Walk"" (1936), MGM's ""Little Bantamweight"" (1938), and Walter Lantz's ""The Bongo Punch"" (1958). Live-action films that include scenes of"
"The Colonel (Monty Python) The Colonel is a recurring fictional character from the British television show ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"", played by Graham Chapman. The Colonel acts as a ""straight man"" comic foil to the show's absurd characters and sketches. He maintains a rigidly mirthless personality and is always dressed in khaki British Army uniform. He occasionally makes appearances in the show, usually breaking the fourth wall and disrupting sketches to pronounce them too silly for the public and, therefore, demanding that something else be shown. He often orders the show to proceed in a different direction (sometimes to the"
"invasion of Ethiopia, the 1936 Summer Olympics, the Spanish Civil War, and other events of the interwar period. He also worked with Horace Thorogood to produce illustrated whimsical articles on the London scene, under the byline ""Low & Terry"". John Gunther called Low ""the greatest caricaturist in the world"". In 1937, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels told British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax that British political cartoons, particularly those of Low's, were damaging Anglo-German relations. In 1937 Low had produced an occasional strip about ""Hit and Muss"" (Hitler and Mussolini), but after Germany made official complaints he substituted a composite dictator,"
"create Colonel Heeza Liar, the first animated series. During the 1910s, the production of animated short films, typically referred to as ""cartoons"", became an industry of its own and cartoon shorts were produced for showing in movie theaters. The most successful producer at the time was John Randolph Bray, who, along with animator Earl Hurd, patented the cel animation process that dominated the animation industry for the rest of the decade. In 1915, Max and Dave Fleischer invented rotoscoping, the process of using film as a reference point for animation and their studios went on to later release such animated"
"General Jumbo General Jumbo (called Admiral Jumbo for a brief period in the early 1970s) was a British comic strip, published in the comics magazine ""The Beano"" and originally drawn by Paddy Brennan and, subsequently, by Sandy Calder. It debuted in 1953. Alfie ""Jumbo"" Johnson was a 12-year-old boy who served as ""general"" to a remote control model army, navy and air force created by scientist Professor Carter. He also appeared in Nutty and Buddy in the early 1980s. The Buddy version called him Jimmy instead of Alfie. Storylines involved crime-fighting and/or rescue missions. Jumbo made his first appearance in"
"he developed out of [""You Know Me Al""] when Lardner left the strip. Circa 1929, the title changed to ""Divot Diggers"", which was continued, first by Vic Forsythe, and then by Pete Llanuza, until 1940. From circa 1930–1932, Dorgan produced the daily panel ""Colonel Gilfeather"", which was syndicated by Associated Press Feature Service and appeared in about 80 newspapers. The strip ""Colonel Gilfeather"" and/or its title character were described by Alexander Theroux as ""a rather pale and derivative imitation of ""Major Hoople"""" (actually a reference to ""Our Boarding House""; like many others today, Theroux mistook Major Amos B. Hoople's name"
"""The Skipper"" (1930) and ""The Hotspur"" (1933), he developed a comic supplement for the weekly newspaper ""The Sunday Post"", the ""Fun Section"" (1936). It included two comic strips in Scots vernacular he had co-created with Dudley D. Watkins, a staff illustrator on the story papers: ""The Broons"", about a working-class Scottish family, and ""Oor Wullie"", about a mischievous young boy (based on Low's son Ron), alongside ""Auchentogle"", drawn by Chic Gordon, and strips by Allan Morley including ""Nero and Zero"" and ""Nosey Parker"". In 1937, as managing editor, he oversaw the launch of DC Thomson's first comic, ""The Dandy"", edited"
"Colonel Blink Colonel Blink (tagline: ""The Short-Gighted Gink"") was a British comic strip, drawn by Tom Bannister in November 1958 for the majority of its run, with a few later strips being drawn by Bill Ritchie and Gordon Bell in the same style as Bannister. The strip was published in the comics magazine ""The Beezer"". Denis Gifford in his Encyclopedia of Comic Characters (1987) attributes his creation to ""Carmichael."" These days he occasionally appears in the reprint Classics from the Comics series. Colonel Blink, whose name was a pun on ""Colonel Blimp"", is a former military colonel who is short-sighted."
"Cohen ran guns for various warlords in mainland China. This is reported to be the first film to use foam latex prosthetics. Makeup artist Charles Gemora applied sponge rubber eyelids for one of the actors. John Howard Reid called it one of the fifty finest films Hollywood ever made. In 1938 an animated cartoon, called ""The Major Lied Till Dawn"", was produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions. In it, a major tells tall tales about his hunting adventures to a boy who resembles Freddie Bartholomew. The character of the major may have been influenced by Colonel Heeza Liar. A third-season episode"