Giles is Coming to Putney & Bringing 'Grandma'

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Catch up on social satire from 4 July – 28 October 2017

Carl Giles OBE of Daily Express and Sunday Express fame was voted the 20th century's favourite cartoonist. Giles remained with Express Newspapers for 48 years, from 1945 to 1991. He is best remembered for the fictional Giles family and particularly the matriarch, known simply as ‘Grandma’.

Giles saw his cartoons as social satire. He was the first cartoonist to have a truly national appeal and he became an institution as year on year his annuals topped the bestseller lists at Christmas. Giles influenced future generations of cartoonists and was a true giant among Britain’s cartoonists.

Now The Political Cartoon Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of Giles’s original cartoons, to be opened by Alan Frame, a former editor of the Daily Express on Tuesday 4 July and on display until 28 October 2017.

Dr Tim Benson, Britain’s leading authority on political cartoons, has published a comprehensive biography of Giles, Giles’s War, including for the first time material from the cartoonist’s own archives. The launch will coincide with the opening of the exhibition.

May 18, 2017