Lloyd's Bank

 

Lloyd's Bank brochure artwork

 "Making a Small Business Bigger", 1981

 "Financing the Farm", 1982

Sunday Times

 A nice spread in the 22 November, 1964 issue to promote the release of 'From Frozen North to Filthy Lucre'.

Round The Bend in Eighty Days with S J Perelman

I received a great contribution from fellow Searle fan James Burgess who realized that the 1972 Perelman/Searle collaboration was not for Travel & Leisure magazine as I assumed in this post but for The New Yorker. The depiction of the famous humorist traveling with his buxom companion were not part of the 'Nostasia in Asia' series but for a piece called 'Round The Bend in Eighty Days'. The illustrations however remain unpublished as far as we can tell since the series featured the work of another illustrator. 

Jules Verne laughs at Perelman & friend's attempts to emulate Phileas Fogg.

The image at the top is the best available online- I'd love to see this in higher quality. If any readers have more info please email me at the address in my Blogger profile. 

Titles By Ronald Searle

I've been meaning to make this for a while: here's a supercut of all the film title sequences designed by Ronald Searle!

Animated Molesworth update!

 

More on adapting Searle's style into animation: London-based animation director and fellow Searle fanatic, Uli Meyer, has news on his 'Molesworth' feature - read it here. 

Uli did the illustrations for the new 'Molesworth' book (above) proving if anyone can match Searle's style he can! (from Korero Press and now available in the US).

Check out Uli's proof-of-concept animated piece below. 

MOLESWORTH_TEASER_TRAILER from Uli Meyer on Vimeo.

Advertising pt. 3

Here's a rarity: a 2000 British Telecom commercial animated by Hibbert Ralph Animation in the style of Ronald Searle. 

Cadbury's Creme Egg campaign, 1992.

More on Searle's work in advertising in pt1 and pt2

Cat cards

  

'Welcome Home' card for Searle's US agent John Locke

Home and Away, the 11th contact book, 1948,

 

Wedding Invitation

 Invite design for the marriage of Alain & Jacoote Vagh

POW theater

Programme covers drawn by Searle for theatre productions at the Barn Theater while at Changi Gaol, Singapore, 1944. From the collection at VAM (click to enlarge).

The next one sold at Bonhams Auctions as part of an archive of documents.

How Ronald Searle drew the Romans

'Don’t meet your heroes, they say. Unless they’re the sublime artist and cartoonist Ronald Searle, I say. I had the great thrill of interviewing Searle (1920-2011) on his 90th birthday in 2010. In his tower house, high in the Provence hills in France, he told me how he’d created my anarchic pin-ups – the wicked girls of St Trinian’s – and Britain’s naughtiest schoolboy, Nigel Molesworth, the Curse of St Custard’s School.

What a joy it is to have one of his drawings on the cover of my book – a collection of the best Latin lines, from “Veni, vidi, vici” to “Carpe diem”.
No cartoonist captured ancient Rome better than Searle. The cover image comes from the second Molesworth book, How to Be Topp, published by Searle and the writer Geoffrey Willans in 1954. The drawing came in a series of “Grate Roman Lies” – Molesworth was a terrible speller. This particular lie was called “Great crimes were rare in ancient times”.
Searle and Willans wittily made the Romans suffer from modern troubles. One cartoon shows a shattered centurion being nagged by his wife and hounded by his dog and wailing infant son. They made the dry rules of Latin funny. One cartoon series – “The Private Life of the Gerund” – treated the obscure verbal form as a pompous, anteater-like creature.
Searle told me how he and Willans worked. “Geoffrey set up the framework but he gave me space to make it visual: to work out what animal the gerund would look like; how the Romans and the Gauls looked; the feel of the foopball ground, as Molesworth called it.”
He added, “Anyone can do a cartoon and make people laugh.”
Not true. And certainly not true of cartoons about the Romans.

by Harry Mount in The New Statesman