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Carl Giles - WWII Cartoons - Soldiers and Englishman in a Train Car

Artist: Carl Giles (All)

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Carl Giles - WWII Cartoons - Soldiers and Englishman in a Train Car Comic Art

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Salute Magazine Cover - April 1946

Carl Giles Cartoon - Printed

Page One of Two-Page Spread of Giles Cartoons

Page Two of Two-Page Spread of Giles Cartoons

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Title:	Carl Giles - WWII Cartoons - Soldiers and Englishman in a Train Car
Artist:	Carl Giles (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	2,789
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Favorited on CAF:	1
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	9/25/2016
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Description

Carl Giles (1916-1995) is widely considered to be one of the greatest British cartoonists of the 20th century. While he is most well known for his daily cartoons featuring the "Giles family", especially Grandma, his work during WWII was quite powerful. This piece needs no punch line. It features a train car full of American servicemen, with a stereotypical Englishman riding in the luggage rack. The contour line work in the piece has always struck me.

If anyone knows where this piece saw print, I'd love to know about it.
This piece has been in my WWII gallery for years, but I thought it was time to cross-list in the British Cartoon Art gallery.

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Oh Happy Day! Last week (April 2022) I was contacted out-of-the-blue by a fellow collector, Ian Feachnie, who knew exactly where the cartoon had been printed: Salute magazine, a just post-WWII magazine started by folks from Yank and Stars & Stripes. I quickly found a copy on eBay and it arrived earlier today. The very first feature in the magazine is a two-page spread of Giles' work, titled "As Others Saw Us..." My cartoon is the very last one, but I owned all four on that page at one time.

The caption: LONDON, MIDLAND & SCOTTISH: Is Your Journey Really Necessary? refers to the London, Midland and Scottish railway, which ran from 1923 to 1948, when it became a part of British Railways.

Thanks to Ian, my 35+ year search is over. Huzzah!

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Roger Nelson
Member Since 2016

Posted on 2/15/2017

Wonderful. You are so lucky to own this.

George Hagenauer
Member Since 2005

Posted on 9/16/2020

Looks familiaris it inGiles at war?

Rob Stolzer
Member Since 2004

Posted on 9/16/2020

George Hagenauer wrote:

Looks familiaris it inGiles at war?

Nope! I've never been able to discover where this was printed/reprinted.

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