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Reader and contributor Stephen Nadler reminded me that an edition of Flanders & Swann's songs was published with cover illustrations by Searle.
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Original artwork in the Searle Archive, Karikatur Museum, Hannover.
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Program cover-Canmore Opera House, Vancouver, BC: November 1980
Searle also illustrated a collection of Tomfoolery composer Tom Lehrer's work called 'Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer and not enough drawings by Ronald Searle'.
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'Poisoning Pigeons in the Park'
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'We Will All Go Together When We Go'
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Searle contributed this image to an illustrated collection of Beatles lyrics portraying John Lennon.
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Lennon (a published cartoonist himself) famously remarked-
". . . I started trying to draw like Ronald Searle when I was about eight. So there was Jabberwocky and Ronald Searle I was turning into by the time I was thirteen. You know, I was determined to be Lewis Carroll with a hint of Ronald Searle."
See also the 'Theater Design' section here
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