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Lady Macbeth |
A gallery of comic rogues
CARTOONIST Dave Brown in January 2003
penned a memorable allusion to the Goya paintings with Ariel Sharon eating a Palestinian child.
Islamic groups in India last summer adopted the cartoon for their anti-America and anti-Israel campaign.
Brown, The Independent’s cartoon editor was given first prize in the Cartoon Gallery’s annual Cartoon of the Year award.
Dr Tim Benson, who runs the Bloomsbury Gallery and Political Cartoon Society, told The Review he had enjoyed an eventful relationship with Mr Brown. “We’ve been in a lot of trouble together,” he says.
“Our society vote each year for their favourite cartoon.
“In 2003, out of 37 cartoons, they voted unanimously for the one of Sharon.
“The next day we were inundated with phone calls, mostly from American Zionists, and our website got 73,000 hits.
“There was an article in one paper saying how the Brits had chosen an anti-Semitic cartoon as the nation’s favourite.
“It wasn’t the depiction of Sharon they were upset about – it was a totally accidental allusion to a lesser-known Nazi myth. Some people said they would never come to London again.”
He adds: “We published all the cartoons in our colourful newsletter that year.”
“He is a wonderful draughtsman. You have Steve Bell, Peter Brook and then Dave right behind them.”
Every Saturday Mr Brown does an allusion in The Independent to a famous painting and puts his own spin on it.
Dr Benson’s Bloomsbury gallery in Store Street is putting on an exhibition of his wickedly funny satires.
He employs his inimitable draughtsmanship to stunning purpose, poking a paintbrush in the eye of our political leaders, and twisting the palette knife to rib-tickling effect.
The Rogues’ Gallery series has appeared in The Independent since January 2004, and this exhibition is a selection of the best of over three years of cartoons.
A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition which opens on April 23.
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