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The Best of Punch Cartoons in Colour
ISBN: 9781853758560
(HB - E)
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With a foreword by Quentin Blake. A feast of undiscovered pictorial treats from the pages of Punch - in glorious colour. Brings together for the first time a stunning collection of over 400 vibrant colour cartoons, illustrations, covers and caricatures published in the world's most famous humour magazine from the 1920s to the 1990s - most never reproduced since original publication. The large full-page format showcases treats like the dazzling Jazz Age hues of Fougasse, some of E H Shepard's most charming illustrations ever and Rowland Emett's crazily eccentric machines. Grouped in eras, there are works by H M Bateman, Arthur Watts, Anton, Russell Brockbank, Quentin Blake, Norman Thelwell, André François, George Adamson, Trog, Mike Williams, Stan Eales and many more. Superb covers from the 1950s-1960s follow the funny, poignant cartoons of WW2, while a host of special features include a look at the Royal Family from Prince Edward Albert to Princess Diana and Ronald Searle's magnificent series of caricatures, Heroes of Our Time. A companion to The Best of Punch Cartoons. 'A handsome book celebrating nearly a century's worth of Punch's brilliant illustrators, from Fougasse to Trogg and Quentin Blake, which holds up a mirror - humorous and telling - to ourselves and the society we inhabited.' --Daily MailQuentin Blake was first published in Punch when he was 16 and still at school. He has always made his living as an illustrator and has had a long career in children's publishing. Quentin Blake's books have won numerous awards and in 1999 he was the first ever Children's Laureate. He was created CBE in 2005.
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