The Benefits of Champagne: Ronald Searle at 90

[callmemadam]

Ronald Searle is ninety today: congratulations! In celebration, you can watch a Channel 4 interview, visit an exhibition at the Cartoon Museum, gaze at the window of the Heywood Hill bookshop and of course read the books he illustrated.





What a lot we owe him.

Comments

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Lucky you! Kaye Webb was his first wife of course and I think he done her wrong. I used to have another collaboration of theirs, Looking at London.

[mimmimmim.livejournal.com]

Love, love, LOVE Molesworth. We always refer to 'foopball' in our house.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Molesworth is topp.

Molesworth

[(Anonymous)]

I have only read Down with Skool (this was read to us as a treat on a Friday afternoon in my small private primary school - it certainly wouldn't feature on any National Curriculum today! - and I have always loved it. I even end up saying "chiz, chiz, chiz" to some correspondents who also adore Molesworth.
Margaret P
PS Didn't Kaye Webb edit Young Elizabethan magazine? I loved that, too, and Molesworth was also in that.

Re: Molesworth

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I've read the lot and have many favourite passages.
Molesworth was in Elizabethan, before my time. Kaye Webb was editor of Puffin books, not the magazine.

Molesworth

[(Anonymous)]

I have managed to get three copies of Young Elizabethan (before it became just Elizabethan) for the monthsJuly, August and November 1956, and Kaye Webb was then Editor - perhaps she wasn't later on, when it became just Elizabethan
Margaret P

Re: Molesworth

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Re: Molesworth

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, I run the Ronald Searle Tribute Blog-any chance you could scan the magazines for me to post any Searle illustrations?

matt_jonezuk@yahoo.co.uk