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Sir David Alexander Cecil Low was a New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years. Low was a self-taught cartoonist. Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney in 1911, and ultimately to London , where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his merciless satirising of the personalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times.

Low was born and educated in New Zealand. His first work was published when he was only 11 years old. His professional career began at The Canterbury Times in 1910. The following year he moved to Australia and worked for The Bulletin. His work attracted the attention of Henry Cadbury, the part owner of The Star, and Low moved to London in 1919, working for that paper until 1927, when he moved to the Evening Standard. There he produced his most famous work, chronicling the rise of fascism in the 1930s, the policy of Appeasement, and the conflict of World War II. His stinging depictions of Hitler and Mussolini led to his work being banned in Italy and Germany, and his being named in The Black Book. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. April 1891 – 19. September 1963
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Famous David Low (cartoonist) Quotes

“Gad, sir, Lord Beaverbrook is right! A conference should be held at once for the U. S. A. to pay back the money Europe owes her.”

David Low (cartoonist)

Political Parade, with Colonel Blimp (London: Cresset Press, 1936); quoted in Time, July 27, 1936. http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,847753,00.html

“Gad, sir, Churchill is right. The Govt. has evidently made an irrevocable decision to be guided by circumstances with a firm hand.”

David Low (cartoonist)

Colonel Blimp, quoted in David G. Chandler & Ian Beckett (eds.) The Oxford History of the British Army (Oxford: OUP, 2003) p. 312.

“I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.”

David Low (cartoonist)

New York Times Magazine, February 10, 1946.

“The scum of the earth, I believe?"
"The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume?”

David Low (cartoonist)

Evening Standard, September 20, 1939.
"Rendezvous", a cartoon set in the ruins of Poland showing Stalin and Hitler genially bowing to each other.

“It may well be, that the future historian, asked to point to the most characteristic expression of the English temper in the period between the two wars will reply without hesitation, "Colonel Blimp."”

David Low (cartoonist)

C. S. Lewis "Blimpophobia", in Time and Tide September 9, 1944.
Criticism

“Very well, alone.”

David Low (cartoonist)

Evening Standard, June 18, 1940.
Published after the German capture of Paris, this shows a soldier on the British coast shaking his fist at approaching bombers. http://www.johndclare.net/images/wwii1.alone.jpg

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