JAK, Raymond Jackson (1927 - 1997)
JAK drew for the Evening Standard from 1952 until his death in 1997. Although Tony Blair described him as one of Britain’s “finest political cartoonists” JAK often categorised himself as a social, rather than political cartoonist. His drawings are crammed full of detail and he tended to use generic figures, rather than identifiable individuals. JAK started out as a commercial artist and he proved very successful at marrying his business sense to his cartooning. Many of his cartoons featured commercial names and logos. He was a master of product placement and arranged business deals with various companies. JAK had trenchant right-wing views but over the course of his career he managed to annoy people across the political spectrum. A spoof film poster he drew in 1982 advertising ‘The Ultimate in Psychopathic Horror – The Irish’ brought accusations of racism from the Greater London Council. Two years later the Conservative party protested when JAK portrayed Norman Tebbit as a bandage-wrapped mummy after the bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton.
Cartoons for sale:
- "Is this your idea of a joke, Geoffrey?"
8th June 1984 - £475
- 54cm x 43cm
- Evening Standard
Margaret Thatcher, Michael Heseltine, Geoffrey Howe and Ted Heath cartoon.
- "Another half dozen of these sunshine and you'll end up on a plane back to Moscow!"
20th Sept. 1988 - £345
- 34cm x 43cm
- Evening Standard
Traffic warden diplomat cartoon.
- "No he's not visiting, he's in for blasphemy!"
4th March 1988 - £345
- 54cm x 44cm
- Evening Standard
Blasphemy prison religion cartoon.
- "Having ruined my dinner with your tear-gas, I suppose I'm going to find it impossible to get a taxi!"
8th Dec. 1986 - £345
- 54cm x 43cm
- Evening Standard
French riot tear gas cartoon.
- "Soon you'll have to go round to Number 10 once a week!"
25th Nov. 1988 - £385
- 54cm x 43cm
- Evening Standard
Queen Elizabeth, Duke of Edinburgh, Neighbours, Thatcher cartoon.
- "CUT!!!"
21st June 1969 - £385
- 55cm x 38cm
- Evening Standard
Royal Family, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Edward cartoon.
- "Hello! Fortnum and Mason? About that Pedigree Chum with truffles I ordered?"
10th March 1983 - £365
- 54cm x 44cm
- Evening Standard
Bloodhound dog cartoon.
- "Come on Gonzalez, I've found an easy way in!"
2nd Oct. 1969 - £250
- 54cm x 38cm
Rock of Gibraltar cartoon.
- "Before we actually storm ashore you're sure it is Anguilla?"
18th March 1969 - £250
- 54cm x 38cm
- Evening Standard
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- "We would have to be the only house in the street converted to colour TV by North Sea Gas!"
15th Nov. 1969 - £250
- 54cm x 38cm
- Evening Standard
- "By the way Leila, that aspirin we gave you is timed to go off in forty-eight hours!"
10th Sept. 1970 - £250
- 54cm x 43cm
- Evening Standard
- "Who said British gunboat diplomacy was dead?", 1968
- £345
- 58cm x 41cm
- Evening Standard
Rhodesian leader Ian Smith met Harold Wilson for talks on HMS Fearless.
- "it's another complaint from the Israelis about it being too near the Red Sea!"
20th Aug. 1970 - £350
- 54cm x 42cm
- Evening Standard
Egyptian Pharaoh cartoon.
- "Well I'm impressed, we've lost three ships, and we we're only watching!"
9th Aug. 1969 - £295
- 55cm x 38cm
- Evening Standard
Gilbralter naval training exercise Cartoon
- "I still say we were as big a threat to the Turkish Fleet, while we were at Monte Carlo!", 1969
- £325
- 59cm x 41cm
- Evening Standard
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Aristotle Onassis cartoon.
- "Well, for a start, Harold, can you do this?"
2nd Dec. 1969 - £365
- 55cm x 43cm
- Evening Standard
French President Georges Pompidou and Prime Minister Harold Wilson
- "I think the police have removed all the hooligans!"
5th Sept. 1970 - £365
- 54cm x 44cm
- Evening Standard
Frank McClintock, Bob Wilson, Ian Ure Arsenal cartoon.
- "And this time we mean business!", 1967
- £375
- 58cm x 41cm
- Evening Standard
Charles De Gaulle, Harold Wilson and George Brown cartoon.
- "If you can't get him up in a few days I suggest you put him out of his misery!"
20th Sept. 1977 - £365
- 55cm x 43cm
- Evening Standard
Formerly the property of Liberal MP Sir Cyril Smith





