"Gentlemen,
the Cartoon"
For
many years the Editor’s cry after Punch lunches
“There aren’t many boasts
that one can make in the reasonable confidence that
they happen to be true, but this is one: when it comes
to the art of the cartoon, no magazine in the world
has a finer record than Punch. Fans of the New Yorker
may carp, but the fact remains that Punch has published
work by a unique array of artists and illustrators;
from John Tenniel and E H Shepard, respectively the
original illustrators of Alice in Wonderland and Winnie
the Pooh, both of them long-serving Punch men, to artists
such as H M Bateman, Fougasse and Trog, all of whose
comic touch was underpinned by a sureness of line that
many a supposedly serious artist would envy and few
could emulate.”
David Thomas
- Editor 1989-1992
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“He
says if he concentrates hard enough he can
remember
the golden age of the Punch Cartoon.” |
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