Comments on: Stars of Political Cartooning – Carl Giles

By: Maddy

Maddy — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:10:06 +0000

I always loved Giles and my Dad would buy me the books at the end of the year. Likewise I’m sure I missed a lot of the political implications but there was always something to catch the eye of the younger readers too.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:15:13 +0000

Does anyone remember a cartoon that Giles did, showing two policemen and a burglar at some ones front door.
The caption went something like;
`This gentleman has come to rob your house, should you resist in any way, we will be forced to arrest you´
I´d be very grateful to get hold of a copy or the number of the album it may be in.

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By: Blackjak

Blackjak — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:26:48 +0000

Larry, I didn’t always get the joke, but it was the artwork and some of the family doing various things in the background that I loved… (my favourite was the kid with the camera and the hedgerow haircut…)

Although I do seem to remember that in a couple of the albums, they actually had a footnote to some of the cartoons mentioning the story that the cartoon referred to…

Oh, and if we were lucky we occassionally saw boobs!

By: Larry Bush

Larry Bush — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:10:48 +0000

Giles was absolutely one of the best. I have several annuals, and they have helped me understand British humour. Unlike Blackjak, I still don’t get some of them (they were pretty topical), but they were still funny with the impish kids making some kind of trouble somewhere in the panel.

By: Blackjak

Blackjak — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:51:25 +0000

Just like Graham Vingoe, I used to love these as a kid… even though I didn’t necessarily get all the political implications, the background detail and characters were rivetting… I could go back and read the Annuals time and again…

I also learned from Giles that there actually was a “right way up” for the Union Flag… Which I was anally glad was reflected in Captain Britain’s new uniform…

@ James Moar: Yeah! Red Sophia’s mum was based on Grandma! I wonder if that’s because Giles’ cartoons were printed in Canada?

By: MartinH

MartinH — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:41:33 +0000

always used to look forward to the Sunday Express newspaper every weekend for the Giles cartoon. We were lucky enough to have Jeff Hawke and and a Thelwell cartoon each week too!

There’s a pub in Ipswich town centre dedicated to him, but it wasn’t his local. That was out on the edge of town and had a bowls green (can’t remember the name of it now, I’m afraid). Giles had his own comfy chair in the tiny snug bar, where he’d sit and moan all the time. There were some original cartoons on the wall he’d done for the pub in exchange for beer at various times.
Grumpy old bugger he was.

And woe betide anyone who sat in his chair!!!!

By: Graham Vingoe

Graham Vingoe — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:41:26 +0000

every year there was a collection of Giles cartoons published, I used to love them to death even as a kid.Giles did something which very few other political cartoonists could do- actually make people laugh.

By: James Moar

James Moar — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:46:29 +0000

US Comics connection — Mrs. Henriot-Gulch in Cerebus is based on Grandma.