"in British papers. Between 1939 and his retirement in 1981 he drew about 10,000 of these ""pocket cartoons"", which made him a nationally known figure. He developed a cast of regular characters, led by his best-known creation, Maudie Littlehampton, through whom he expressed his views on the fashions, fads and political events of the day. From his youth, Lancaster wanted to design for the theatre, and in 1951 he was commissioned to create costumes and scenery for a new ballet, ""Pineapple Poll"". Between then and the early 1970s he designed new productions for the Royal Ballet, Glyndebourne, D'Oyly Carte, the"
"non-party independent member of her local council, and as chairman of its planning committee she successfully strove to preserve the green belt around the town of Draynefleet. Lancaster had been contributing pocket cartoons to ""The Daily Express"" since 1939, but it was not until after the war that he developed a repertory company of characters in whose mouths he put his social and political jokes. Maudie quickly became his star character and principal mouthpiece. She began as what he called ""a slightly dotty class symbol"", but developed into ""a voice of straightforward comment which might be my own"". Her comments"
"D Wetherspoon Tim Martin who both gave interviews for 8 January's special edition of the paper. The first week of the campaign saw a response of around 370,000 signatures being received (just over 50% of daily readership or around 0.6% of the UK population). Daily Express The Daily Express is a daily national middle-market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom. It is the flagship of Express Newspapers, a subsidiary of Northern & Shell (which is owned by publisher Trinity Mirror). It was first published as a broadsheet in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson. Its sister paper, the Sunday Express, was"
"Teddy Tail Teddy Tail was a British newspaper comic strip about a cartoon mouse featured in ""The Daily Mail"" from 5 April 1915. It was the first ""daily"" cartoon strip in a British newspaper (being also the first to use speech balloon rather than captions), The character survived until the 1960s with several artists drawing newspaper strips and the varied annuals. Such was his popularity that other newspapers created their own cartoon characters, the Daily Express with ""Rupert Bear"" and the Daily Mirror with ""Pip, Squeak and Wilfred"". The first variant of Teddy Tail was drawn by Charles Folkard (1878–1963)"
"Daily Express The Daily Express is a daily national middle-market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom. It is the flagship of Express Newspapers, a subsidiary of Northern & Shell (which is owned by publisher Trinity Mirror). It was first published as a broadsheet in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson. Its sister paper, the Sunday Express, was launched in 1918. In December 2016, it had an average daily circulation of 391,626. The paper was acquired by Richard Desmond in 2000. Hugh Whittow was the editor from February 2011 until he retired in March 2018. Gary Jones took over as editor-in-chief in"
"Cartoon Editor for Express Newspapers from 1965-1966 and from 1968-1971 was the Special Features Editor of King Magazine. Maddocks characters tend to have google eyes with splayed out fingers. Maddocks has made contributions to the following: Peter Maddocks Peter Maddocks (born 1 April 1928) is a noted British cartoonist. Maddocks has contributed to many of the UK's leading Daily and Sunday national papers with cartoon series such as ""Four D. Jones"" in the Daily Express in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He has also created children's animated series for the BBC including ""The Family Ness"", ""Penny Crayon"", ""Jimbo and"
"the little boy who points out that the Emperor is stark naked"". In the late 1940s Lancaster developed a repertory company of characters in whose mouths he put his social and political jokes. The star character was Maudie, Countess of Littlehampton, who managed to be shrewd and flighty simultaneously. She began as what her creator called ""a slightly dotty class symbol"", but developed into ""a voice of straightforward comment which might be my own"". Maudie's political views were eclectic: ""on some matters she is far to the right of Mr Enoch Powell, and on others well to the left of"
"of his New York heroes, James Thurber, S. J. Perelman and Woody Allen"". A small-format single-frame ""pocket cartoon"", the little man series used hand-lettered text in soft pencil and minimalist detail, a technique he had evolved due to early weaknesses in draughtsmanship. Calman is commemorated by a Hackney historic plaque on his former residence at 64 Linthorpe Road; where he lived from 1931 until 1957. Mel Calman Melville Calman (19 May 1931, Stamford Hill – 10 February 1994, London) was a British cartoonist best known for his ""little man"" cartoons published in British newspapers including the ""Daily Express"" (1957–63), ""The"
"humorous effect. The humour can reduce people's political anger and so serves a useful purpose. Such a cartoon also reflects real life and politics, where a deal is often done on unrelated proposals beyond public scrutiny. A pocket cartoon is a form of cartoon which generally consists of a topical political gag/joke and appears as a single-panel single-column drawing. It was introduced by Osbert Lancaster in 1939 at the ""Daily Express"". A 2005 obituary by ""The Guardian"" of its pocket cartoonist David Austin said ""Newspaper readers instinctively look to the pocket cartoon to reassure them that the disasters and afflictions"
"inventive coinage of terms for period styles such as ""Banker's Georgian"", ""Stockbrokers' Tudor"" and ""By-pass Variegated"", and described the book as both perceptive and shrewd. In 1938 Lancaster agreed to help Betjeman write a series of articles for ""The Daily Express"". He became friendly with the paper's features editor, John Rayner, who responded positively to Lancaster's praise of ""the little column-width cartoons"" popular in the French press but not, so far, seen in British papers. Rayner dubbed them ""pocket cartoons"" after the pocket battleships then much in the news, and invited Lancaster to contribute some. The first appeared on 3"
"January 1939. The early cartoons accompanied the ""William Hickey"" gossip column; later they were promoted to a front-page slot, where they remained a regular feature, with only brief interruptions, for more than forty years, totalling about 10,000. The popularity of Lancaster's cartoons led to attempts by other papers, including ""The Times"", to lure him away from the ""Express"", but he resisted them. Although he thought the ""Express's"" proprietor, Lord Beaverbook, ""an old brute"" and ""a bastard"", he found him ""an ideal employer as far as I was concerned: he left one's work absolutely alone"". Shortly after the outbreak of war,"
"the ""Daily Express"" standard-head). One critic described the original lay-out of the magazine as owing much to ""Neo-Brechtian Nihilism"", although Rushton thought it resembled a betting shop floor. One feature in the early issues was the ""Aesop Revisited"", a full-page comic strip which let him work in a wealth of puns and background jokes. With ""Private Eye"" riding the satire boom, Peter Cook soon took an interest and contributed two serials recounting the bizarre adventures of Sir Basil Nardly-Stoads and the Rhandi Phurr, both of which were illustrated by Rushton, as was ""Mrs Wilson's Diary"". In the early days the"
"paper defended the cartoon's publication, saying it was meant to generate discussion. Race relations commissioner Susan Devoy called it ""out of line"". The Marlborough Express The Marlborough Express is a newspaper servicing the Marlborough area of New Zealand. Its headquarters are in Blenheim and has been published there since 1866. It became a daily in 1880 and took over its rivals the ""Marlborough Times"" in 1895 and the ""Marlborough Press"" in 1948. In 1998 it was sold to Independent Newspapers Limited (INL). It is now a division of Fairfax. The paper made headlines nationally in 2013 when it published a"
"middle-class woman, and the covers represented her ""life"" from young womanhood to middle age. ""Storylines"" for Lil were often suggested by readers. In 1930, a movie was made featuring Thrasher's character, and a radio show for the character was also produced. In addition to his magazine cover illustrations, his work was featured prominently in advertisements for Chesterfield Cigarettes, Cream of Wheat, DuPont, and the Fisk Tire Company. Leslie Thrasher Charles Leslie Thrasher (September 15, 1889 – December 2, 1936) was an American illustrator best known for his magazine covers for ""Liberty"" magazine and the ""Saturday Evening Post"". Thrasher was born"
"twice – and drawn with great love. … Maudie, herself, is a magnificent invention – his masterpiece"". In 2008 Peter York called Maudie ""a brilliantly realised comic impersonation"": Another cartoonist, Martin Rowson, has said that in Maudie it is possible to see her creator's views and intentions: ""The great thing about Osbert is that although he appealed to the establishment, he was in fact deeply subversive. His best-known character, Maudie Littehampton, was in fact far more subversive than she first appeared. And the truly amazing thing is that Osbert was able to show his work on the front page of"
"Mr Michael Foot"". Her comments on the fads and peculiarities of the day caught the public imagination; the art historian Bevis Hillier calls her ""an iconic figure to rank with Low's Colonel Blimp and Giles's Grandma"". Various candidates have been proposed as the model for Maudie, but Lancaster maintained that she was not based on any one real person. Other regular characters included Maudie's dim but occasionally perceptive husband Willy; two formidable dowagers: the Littlehamptons' Great-Aunt Edna, and Mrs Frogmarch, a middle-class Tory activist; Canon Fontwater, a personification of the Church Militant; Mrs Rajagojollibarmi, an Asian politician; and Father O'Bubblegum,"
"2000, he was voted 'Britain's Favourite Cartoonist of the 20th Century'. A bronze statue depicting Grandma looking up at the newspaper office window in Ipswich, England where he used to work was unveiled by Warren Mitchell. Giles, who was by this time using a wheelchair, was present at the unveiling. He lived in Witnesham and supported Ipswich Town F.C. By Giles About Giles Carl Giles Ronald ""Carl"" Giles OBE (29 September 1916 – 27 August 1995), often referred to simply as Giles, was a cartoonist best known for his work for the British newspaper the ""Daily Express"". His cartoon style"
"""Little Iodine"", Bob Green's ""The Lone Ranger"", ""Believe It or Not!"", ""Uncle Remus"", """", ""Donald Duck"", ""Tippie"", ""Right Around Home"", ""Barney Google and Snuffy Smith"" and ""The Katzenjammer Kids"". Tad Dorgan, known for his boxing and dog cartoons as well as the comic character Judge Rummy, joined the ""Journal""'s staff in 1905. In 1922, the ""Evening Journal"" introduced a Saturday color comics tabloid with strips not seen on Sunday, and this 12-page tabloid continued for decades, offering ""Popeye"", ""Grandma"", Don Tobin's ""The Little Woman"", ""Mandrake the Magician"", Don Flowers' ""Glamor Girls"", ""Grin and Bear It"" and ""Buck Rogers"" and other"
"""The Gambols"" with the ""Express"" running an intended final strip showing George and Gaye - along with Flivver and Miggy - evidently preparing to journey on in the family car. However the strip was picked up as of December 1999 by the ""Mail on Sunday"" for whom Mahoney has been drawing ""The Gambols"" ever since. The Gambols The Gambols is a British comic strip created by Barry Appleby which debuted 16 March 1950 in the ""Daily Express"" where it ran for almost 50 years: as of 1999 ""The Gambols"" has appeared in the ""Mail on Sunday"". From ""The Gambols""' inception"
"Carl Giles Ronald ""Carl"" Giles OBE (29 September 1916 – 27 August 1995), often referred to simply as Giles, was a cartoonist best known for his work for the British newspaper the ""Daily Express"". His cartoon style was a single topical highly detailed panel, usually with a great deal more going on than the single joke. Certain recurring characters achieved a great deal of popularity, particularly the extended Giles family, which first appeared in a published cartoon on 5 August 1945 and featured prominently in the strip. Of these, the most remembered is the enigmatic matriarch of the family, known"
"Express""), and the ""Daily Star"". Additionally, John McLusky returned to team up with Jim Lawrence for five comic strips. One strip, ""Doomcrack"", is unusual in that it featured artwork by Harry North, who at the time worked for ""MAD Magazine"" on its film parodies. The 1983 strip ""Polestar"" was abruptly terminated by the ""Daily Star"" midway through its run and was not completed, although the complete story did appear in non-UK newspapers and was followed by several more complete serials before the James Bond comic strip officially came to an end. Since first publication in the ""Daily Express"", the comic"
"Aunt Dahlia Dahlia Travers (née Wooster) is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories of English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Bertie Wooster's bonhomous, red-faced Aunt Dahlia. She is much beloved by her nephew, in contrast with her sister, Bertie's Aunt Agatha. Proprietor of the weekly newspaper for women ""Milady's Boudoir"", she is married to Tom Travers, mother of Angela Travers and Bonzo Travers, and employs the supremely gifted French chef Anatole at her country house, Brinkley Court. Aside from Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, Aunt Dahlia appears in more Jeeves novels, and more Jeeves stories"
"their report on the 2001 outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the United Kingdom, and the response the government gave to it. In former years, the magazine published collections of their strip cartoons. In particular, ""The Adventures of Barry McKenzie"", the exploits of an uncouth Australian expatriate in Sixties London, written by Barry Humphries and illustrated by Nicholas Garland, was published in three collections, long since out of print and now collectors' items. The Bill Tidy strip ""The Cloggies"" was also issued in this form. Each year the magazine publishes a number of Christmas cards, which typically feature cartoons"
"Boudoir"" in ""The Code of the Woosters"", she and Jeeves plan together how to extricate Bertie from trouble without discussing it with Bertie in ""Jeeves and the Greasy Bird"", and Jeeves serves as substitute butler for her at Brinkley Court when Bertie is not there in ""Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves"". Aunt Dahlia is featured in many Jeeves stories, across much of Wodehouse's writing career: Aunt Dahlia or her ""Milady's Boudoir"" are mentioned in several stories, including: Milady's Boudoir is a fictional weekly newspaper for women, of which Aunt Dahlia is the proprietor. According to Bertie, each issue costs sixpence. ""Milady's"
"The story was illustrated by Charles Crombie in the ""Strand"" and by James Montgomery Flagg in ""Cosmopolitan"". The 1932 collection ""Nothing But Wodehouse"", published by Doubleday, and the 1958 collection ""Selected Stories by P. G. Wodehouse"", published by The Modern Library, included the story. An episode of ""The World of Wooster"" adapted the story. The episode, titled ""Jeeves and the Love That Purifies"", was the sixth episode of the third series. It was originally broadcast in the UK on 10 November 1967. It featured Ian Carmichael as Bertie Wooster, Dennis Price as Jeeves, Anthony Kemp as Sebastian Moon, Erik Chitty"
"example, illustrations he created for Appleton’s, the publishers, took him five weeks to produce and he was only paid $12. He gradually obtained more work from periodicals such as ""New York Picayune"", ""Pick"", ""Diogenes hys Lanterne"" and others. The payments per illustration were still low, but by doing the rounds with his work, he began to establish a network of business and social contacts. In 1850, he drew and designed a graphic novel call ""Mose Among the Britishers or The B’hoy in London"". It featured the popular character of a Bowery b’hoy, said to be the legendary Mose Humphrey, who"
"Newspapers was sold to publisher Richard Desmond in 2000, and the names of the newspapers reverted to ""Daily Express"" and ""Sunday Express"". In 2004, the newspaper moved to its present location on Lower Thames Street in the City of London. On 31 October 2005, UK Media Group Entertainment Rights secured majority interest from the ""Daily Express"" for Rupert Bear. They paid £6 million for a 66.6% control of the character. The ""Express"" retains minority interest of one-third plus the right to publish Rupert Bear stories in certain Express publications. In 2000, Express Newspapers was bought by Richard Desmond, publisher of"
"c.1962. There were several undated annuals featuring the first version of Teddy Tail. These follow an order as proved by the story continuity and those as shown in adverts in the back of the later prints of the books. They are as shown below in the order of issuing. Teddy Tail Teddy Tail was a British newspaper comic strip about a cartoon mouse featured in ""The Daily Mail"" from 5 April 1915. It was the first ""daily"" cartoon strip in a British newspaper (being also the first to use speech balloon rather than captions), The character survived until the 1960s"
"Game,"" a psychological thriller. In 2015, it featured in Laurence Simpson's comic novel about the tabloid media, ""According to The Daily Mail."" And in 2017, a thinly-disguised version of the ""Daily Mail,"" called simply ""The Mail"" appears in Michael Paraskos's dark satire based on the Donald Trump presidency, ""Rabbitman"", in which the newspaper's fictional editor is subjected to a lobotomy in a dystopian post-Brexit Britain to try and cure him of ""nasty little paranoid thoughts about scroungers, traitors and foreigners."" Source: Daily Mail The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper published in London. Founded in 1896, it"
"apology could remedy it"". The ""Daily Express"" has a reputation for printing conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales as front-page news, earning it the nickname the ""Daily Ex-Princess""; this has been satirised in ""Private Eye"" as the ""Diana Express"" or the ""Di'ly Express"", and has been attributed to Desmond's friendship with regular ""Eye"" target Mohamed Fayed. In 2006 and 2007, these front-page stories consistently appeared on Mondays, and ended only when the paper focused instead on the Madeleine McCann story (see below). Even on 7 July 2006, the anniversary of the London bombings (used by most"
"under his control, but his escalating debts forced him to try to sell the idea. To that end, he made several trips to London, where—armed with the dummy—he pitched his idea to several Fleet Street publishers. He met John Myers at Hulton Press, who referred him to Montague Haydon at Amalgamated Press. He then met Neville Pearson at George Newnes, Ltd., whose executives claimed that the publication was ""not an economic proposition"". The US comics reprinter Boardmans was next, followed by Mike Wardell of the ""Sporting Record"". Neither ""The Times"" nor ""The Daily Telegraph"" were interested, and at ""The Sunday"
"Thunderball is still an extravagant adventure"". The critic for the ""Daily Herald"" implored ""Hey!—that man is taking his clothes off again. So is the girl ... Can anybody ""stop"" this? Unfortunately not. Not this side of the best-seller lists. I don't envy Mr Bond's wealthy creator, Ian Fleming. I wish I could pity him"", whilst L.G. Offord considered ""Thunderball"" to be ""just about as wild as ever, with a walloping climax."" A comic strip adaptation was published daily in the ""Daily Express"" newspaper and syndicated worldwide, beginning on 11 December 1961. However, the owner of the ""Daily Express"", Lord Beaverbrook,"
"back in to get it, upon which she is mistaken for Black Rod. Giles finally quit working for ""The Daily Express"" in 1989; his cartoons had been allocated less and less space in the newspaper, and he said that the last straw was being stood up following a trip to London to lunch with the editor. He continued working for the ""Sunday Express"" until 1991. He never actually sold any of his creations, preferring to donate them to friends and to charitable organisations, like the RNLI, of which he was Life President and which continues to issue charity Christmas cards"