David Low
David Low
Sir David Alexander Cecil Lowwas 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 the personalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth7 April 1891
I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.
Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.
Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass.