EXTRACTS: Illustrators Issue 6 © 2013 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

48 Way back in the last century, national newspaper cartoonists weren’t easy to track down, even when one worked on the same newspaper. Stan McMurtry, (MAC) on the Daily Mail, had a room next to the process department, three floors above the newsroom in Northcliffe House. Carl Giles of the Daily Express worked in rural Suffolk, sending his finished drawings in on a train from Ipswich Station, and Peter Maddocks shared an eyrie above El Vino at the top end of Fleet Street, with Peter O’Donnell the creator of Modesty Blaise, only venturing out on Thursdays to draw my city page drawings for the Evening News, which he produced working on the end Dave Gaskill eadpan humour coupled with biting caricature. Bryn Havord reveals the life and times of one of Fleet Street’s most enduring and entertaining cartoonists. ABOVE: Gaskill’s flair for barbed caricature has found an appreciative audience amongst both commissioning editors, and the mass readership that their publications command, as these depictions of Prince Philip, David Cameron and Mick Jagger attest. FACING PAGE: The ‘Angry Scot’; Andy Murray and mum.