Achilles

While on a Greek theme here's Searle's cover illustration for Robert Graves' Homeric translation 'The Anger of Achilles'

The US edition had interior illustrations too.

An extract appeared in Harper's Bazaar 1959

Portrait of Graves, 1950

Capsulysses

I had seen low quality scans of this strip online years ago & had always hoped to track down an original print to see it at high resolution. Ads & Ends found it amongst their Punch collection & were kind enough to donate it to this blog.

It's a four page strip which I'll post in sequence over the next few days, here's part 1.

Part 2


Part 3


Part 4

I found a great Ebay shop specializing in framed prints of Ronald Searle Punch cartoons. They're essentially pages from the magazine clipped out & framed. Just click on the Punch cartoons section in the left hand column or search for Ronald Searle. There are dozens of Searle's Punch Theatre caricatures on offer.

Happy Birthday Ronald Searle

Today is Mr Searle's 89th birthday! Before I left France I was over-joyed to receive a package from Mr Searle himself. When I met him last year he told me about the animated spots he made with Ivor Wood & would try to dig out the tape for me. As good as his word the tape arrived along with some photos from his archive. The photos relate to his time in New York & Hollywood in the 50s making Energetically Yours.

Above is a shot from his tour of the Disney studio that is previously un-published as far as I know. Walt must have been in a particularly jovial mood that day.

It's an honour to have Mr Searle effectively contributing to this blog! I told him about this site but I don't think he's online, although he did tell me to look for pen nibs on Ebay!

Hommage pt.2

Ken Turner made a series of interpretations of characters from BATMAN in Searle's style

Last year artists at Dreamworks Animation ran a 'Searle' character design class. The assignment was to draw characters from Flash Gordon or Conan in the style of Searle.

Shannon Tindle.

Patrick Maté.

Shane Prigmore.

More . . .

Eric Deuel.

If there are any other artists from the class who would like to contribute their Searle-esque designs please email me at the address in my Blogger profile.

Cheyenne Curtis made this fab St Trins girl

This Molesworth parody I found on Flickr but I've lost the name of the artist. Apologies. Perhaps someone can help identify him?

Here are the tribute pieces to mark Ronald Searle's death on the 30th December, 2011

Elliot Elam

Elliot Cowan

Jonathan Cusick

Jean-Paul Vomorin

Jean Michel Gruet

Joe Corraro

Brian Ajhar

Conor McHale

Pedro Delgado

ST. Trinians style illustration for the London Evening Standard by Weef

Searle's Progress

For his 2005 documentary 'Searle's Progress' Brit cartoonist Martin Rowson illustrated each 'chapter' in the spirit of Searle's own Rakes Progress (in turn inspired by Hogarth's original).
Originally broadcast on BBC 4 the biographical film details Searle's life & career with contributions from war comrades, colleagues & todays top cartoonists. Contributors include Steve Bell, Posy Simmonds, Chris Beetles, Russell Braddon