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qatsiBook Review: Giles's War - Cartoons 1939-45, edited by Tim Benson
I think I first became aware of Carl Giles when I received this Christmas card from my Grandmother, which from the catalog must have been around 1980. When I saw this book in the work book sale, it was an easy choice to pick it up. There's some useful background text from Tim Benson, explaining Giles' early career and his work during the war. A comment that he didn't get along well with his official biographer Peter Tory could be interpreted as challenging the competition, but I don't think that's the intention here. Most of the book is devoted to cartoons, of course, and they span the whole period from before the outbreak of war to beyond VJ Day. If you like Giles, you'll like this; if you don't know Giles, here is the war in quintessentially British humour as depicted by Giles:
I think I first became aware of Carl Giles when I received this Christmas card from my Grandmother, which from the catalog must have been around 1980. When I saw this book in the work book sale, it was an easy choice to pick it up. There's some useful background text from Tim Benson, explaining Giles' early career and his work during the war. A comment that he didn't get along well with his official biographer Peter Tory could be interpreted as challenging the competition, but I don't think that's the intention here. Most of the book is devoted to cartoons, of course, and they span the whole period from before the outbreak of war to beyond VJ Day. If you like Giles, you'll like this; if you don't know Giles, here is the war in quintessentially British humour as depicted by Giles:
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Date: 2017-12-12 10:03 am (UTC)