Friday Spill: Ronald Searle’s B’Day Celebrated

 

Ronald Searle, born on this day in 1920 is featured by at least two fave Spill sites today, Jason Chatfield’s blog and Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery

Mr. Searle began contributing to The New Yorker in 1966 (his A-Z entry is at he bottom of this post).

Mr. Chatfield (a New Yorker contributor since 2017) includes in his Searle post this wonderful “family tree” of inspiration (or is sun and moons?):

 

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Ronald Searle  Born, Cambridge, England March 3, 1920. Died, December 30, 2011, Draguignan, France. Steven Heller, who wrote Searle’s obit for The New York Times (Jan 4, 2012) said Searle’s “outlandishly witty illustrations for books, magazine covers, newspaper editorial pages and advertisements helped define postwar graphic humor…”

NYer work (including covers and cartoons): November 12, 1966 – August 19, 2002. An interesting tribute site: ronaldsearle.blogspot.com/ Searle’s wiki entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Searle