Mac started out as a cartoon film animator. In 1969 he began working for the Daily Sketch. When the Daily Sketch was absorbed by the Daily Mail in 1971, Mac stayed on replacing Wally Fawkes, drawing six cartoons a week and signing them as Mac. Mac was urged by his Editor to be “more politically minded” but he saw himself more as a social commentator, able to “make the dreary news copy of the daily paper brighter by putting in a laugh”. From 1980, Mac always hid a sketch of either Janet or Liz, his second and third wives, somewhere in his cartoons, unless they depicted very serious political events.
Cartoons for sale:
- Caption Displayed
14th April 1992 - £345
- 53cm x 35cm
- Daily Mail
- "I'm sorry, I've been under great strain since the Norman Lamont Scandal and I can't do my job properly", 1991
- £325
- 40cm x 27cm
- Daily Mail
- Caption Displayed, 1992
- £335
- 41cm x 27cm
- Daily Mail
- SOLD, 2004
- 18cm x 32cm
Auctioned for charity by the Today Programme on 14/9/2004, the auctioneer being John Humphreys.
- "Psst, David... could you whisper your instructions into the PM's earpiece? They can hear you all around the hall."
3rd Oct. 1977 - £345
- 45cm x 34cm
- Daily Mail