Mac, Stan McMurtry b.1936
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:
- SOLD "The Palace is on the phone Mr President - Did Nancy by any chance pick up the wring hat when she left?"
3rd June 1988 - 52cm x 34cm
- Daily Mail
Nancy and Ronald Reagan cartoon. Formerly owned by Danny La Rue.
- "Odd isn't it Fred, tacks all over the raod, four flat tyres, luckily a sweet old lady has offered me a cup of tea until you get here with the breakdown van.", 1978
- £285
- 44cm x 34cm
- Daily Mail
- "Dammit! Oi've been slavin' away all day shuttin' the shops down and here's you haven't even got me dinner on the table!"
22nd May 1974 - £315
- 36cm x 27cm
- Daily Mail
- "...and then Sir, there was the one about the Scottish Forwards who were so mean they didn't want to wear out the back of the net. And have you heard the one about...", 1978
- £325
- 42cm x 32cm
- Daily Mail
- "Please Mummy, don't let these old s**** eat all the f****** cake. I've just finished my b***** homework and I'm f****** famished."
12th Jan. 2001 - £315
- 52cm x 34cm
- Daily Mail
- "Mum - Dad's on the telly."
14th June 1982 - £315
- 44cm x 34cm
- Daily Mail
- "You heard! - National Union of Seamen - Now open the windows and fly over London."
13th Sept. 1976 - £315
- 41cm x 31cm
- Daily Mail
- "Oh yes please, - whisk me off to faraway, exotic places - Are you going near Battersea Power Station?"
1st Sept. 1983 - £325
- 44cm x 34cm
- Daily Mail
- "Well Mr Smith? - Did you ask them about taking part in the Film?"
19th Sept. 1977 - £335
- 43cm x 33cm
- Daily Mail
Formerly the property of Liberal MP Cyril Smith
- "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
- Caption Displayed, 1992
- £335
- 41cm x 27cm
- 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
14th April 1992 - £345
- 53cm x 35cm
- Daily Mail
Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley as Mickey Mouse and Goofy cartoon.
