David Low (cartoonist)

The cartoonist who mocked the dictators of the 1930s from London. Born in Dunedin, New Zealand, and first published at 11, Low joined the Evening Standard in 1927 and drew Hitler and Mussolini so sharply that his work was banned in Italy and Germany, and his name went into the Nazi Black Book of prominent Britons. At home he invented Colonel Blimp, a pompous caricature of the British establishment whose name outlived the cartoons. His bold brush line still looks modern, and Steve Bell is among the many later cartoonists he influenced.