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

51 police officers clutching their genitals outside Croydon magistrates’ court. My wife Elaine is a criminal defence lawyer, and higher court advocate, and Gaskill kindly gave her the original drawing, which now has pride of place on a wall in her office, much to the amusement of some of her clients. Gaskill was born in Liverpool in 1939. He told me, “When I left Moseley Hall Grammar School in 1955, I took up an engineering apprenticeship, having been assured by a kindly but deluded careers officer, that becoming a draughtsman would satisfy my artistic urges. It didn’t, but it eventually paid well enough to enable me to marry my first wife Hilary in 1961. “I had a spell freelancing in Germany, a kind of white-collar ‘Auf Wiedersehen Pet’ operation, which paid well, but when I got back to the United Kingdom, job opportunities for engineering draughtsman had dried up. So it was up sticks again, and in 1972, with our son Chris and daughter Laura, we emigrated to South Africa.” After a brief stint working as draughtsman in the gold mining industry he was offered a job as an editorial artist on the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg , a crusading newspaper internationally renowned for its anti- apartheid stance. He’d taken some sample sketches and cartoons, and left a drawing of George Best, which appeared the next day, but attributed to