Comments on: Stars of Political Cartooning - John "HB" Doyle

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Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:42:20 +0000

[...] Stars of Political Cartooning - John â€œHBâ€ Doyle from Comics Should Be Good! [...]

By: Larry Bush

Larry Bush — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:38:41 +0000

I went to the jump page to look at some of Doyle's other works. He was quite a draftsman. It is easy to see that he had classical training. I think that that draftsmanship is missing from cartoons now because of frequency demands. However, Steve Sack of Minneapolis draws some pretty elaborate stuff.

By: Jeremy Cresswell

Jeremy Cresswell — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:03:13 +0000

2 of H.B.'s sons were cartoonists in thier own right and both worked on 'Punch'. Henry Edward Doyle (1827-92) was an engraver for Punch, a cartoonist for Fun and the commisioner for the Papal States to the great London exibition of 1862. Richard 'Dicky' Doyle (1824-83) Was a cartoonist for 'Punch' until he resigned in 1850 for Its anti-Papal policy (as Brian mentioned in his bio of Tenniel). As Irish and Catholic were synonymous in 19th C England hostility towards the Catholics/Irish at the height of the potato famine would be a justifyable reason for an Irish-Catholic cartoonist to quit Punch. P.S. A totally useless fact is that all the Doyles from H.B down to Arthur Ignatius Conan believed in fairies!