'Fougasse' (1887 - 1965, Cyril Kenneth Bird)
One of Percy Bradshaw's successful students at the Press Art School (see
Comics in the Database under Learning the Trade . He became Art Director
then Editor of Punch. His professional name was derived from a French
mine of erratic performance. In any study of the Sequential, Fougasse's
work is central, not from his drawing style which once original, tended
to stick where it was - but from his magnificent pictorial imagination.
His pacing and economy are like those achieved in a every good film. His
book of professional observations, The Good Tempered Pencil, is much recommended.
His Book Jackets
01 Stop
or Go, Methuen 1938
02 You
have been warned reprint 1956
03 Family
Group, 1944
04 Home
Circle Methuen 1945
05 Careless
Talk Costs Lives
06 You
have been warned 5th edition 1935
07 You
have been warned endpapers
08 You
have been warned, 1937 (1935)
each 19x 12 cms
05 You never know who's listening,
Hitler and Goring sit behind you on the 'bus, from Fougasse, A
School of Purposes, Fougasse Posters 1939 - 1945,' published
1946
TWO FULL PAGE CARTOONS FOR PUNCH
09 "Excuse me, but can you tell me if there is a decent Hotel anywhere
in Saltbeach" Punch Summer Number May 23 1927 17 x 23 cms
10 A constant
theme from 1900, the despoilation of the environment by glaring posters.
"The Killjoy" Punch's Almanack November 1 1926. 17 x 23 cms
BOOKS AND COVERS
HOME CIRCLE 1945
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED 1935
A SCHOOL OF PURPOSESPosters 1946
SINGLES
In Praise of Humour, Muller 1949, book cover
Drawing the Line Somewhere Methuen 1937
The Festival of PUNCH, 1951 Mistaken Views of the British, Mass Observation I and II
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