Greenall, Jack (1905 - 1983)
Greenall contributed cartoons to Punch, Bystander, Passing Show and drew for children's comics such as Sparkler and Jolly Comic. Greenall's first ‘Useless Eustace’ cartoon appeared in the Daily Mirror on 21 January 1935, and thereafter appeared in every issue of the paper. The name Eustace had been suggested by the genie in William Darlington's novel Alf's Button, which appeared as a film in 1930, but the character itself was not modelled on anyone. As Greenall explained, "he is a hotch-potch of the many asses who cheerfully go through life doing the wrong thing at the wrong time." At first drawn as a typical office-worker, Greenall later transformed Eustace into a comic symbol of the common man, and gave him any trade or profession that fitted the joke. Useless Eustace was Sir Winston Churchill’s favourite cartoon which he avidly followed in the Daily Mirror.
Cartoons for sale:
- Caption Displayed, 1964
- £385
- 14cm x 17cm
- Daily Mirror
Useless Eustace cartoon.
- No Caption, 1960
- £385
- 17cm x 14cm
- Daily Mirror
Useless Eustace cartoon.
- Caption Displayed, 1961
- £385
- 14cm x 16cm
- Daily Mirror
Useless Eustace cartoon.
- Caption Displayed, 1965
- £385
- 14cm x 16cm
- Daily Mirror
Useless Eustace cartoon.
- Caption Displayed, 1959
- £385
- 14cm x 17cm
- Daily Mirror
Useless Eustace cartoon.
- Caption Displayed, 1958
- £385
- 14cm x 16cm
- Daily Mirror
Useless Eustace cartoon.
- Caption Displayed
6th June 1971 - £385
- 14cm x 17cm
- Daily Mirror
Useless Eustace cartoon.
- Sir Malcolm Sargent, 1950
- £335
- 15cm x 23cm
- Daily Mirror
- Useless Eustace, 1948
- £375
- 14cm x 14cm
- Daily Mirror
Useless Eustace was Winston Churchill's favourite cartoon.
- Caption Displayed
20th Oct. 1941 - £345
- 20cm x 28cm
- Blighty Magazine
- Caption Displayed, 1941
- £335
- 19cm x 29cm
- Blighty Magazine
- Caption Displayed
28th Dec. 1940 - £375
- 21cm x 30cm
- Blighty Magazine
- Caption Displayed, 1944
- £395
- 26cm x 23cm
- Unknown
Winston Churchill as jousting knight cartoon.
