How Ronald Searle drew the Romans
'Don’t meet your heroes, they say. Unless they’re the sublime artist and cartoonist Ronald Searle, I say. I had the great thrill of interviewing Searle (1920-2011) on his 90th birthday in 2010. In his...
View ArticlePOW theater
Programme covers drawn by Searle for theatre productions at the Barn Theater while at Changi Gaol, Singapore, 1944. From the collection at VAM (click to enlarge).The next one sold at Bonhams Auctions...
View ArticleRonald Searle designed commercial for BT
Here's a rarity: a 2000 British Telecom commercial animated by Hibbert Ralph Animation in the style of Ronald Searle.Â
View ArticleAnimated Molesworth update!
 More on adapting Searle's style into animation: London-based animation director and fellow Searle fanatic, Uli Meyer, has news on his 'Molesworth' feature - read it here. Uli did the illustrations for...
View ArticleTitles By Ronald Searle
I've been meaning to make this for a while: here's a supercut of all the film title sequences designed by Ronald Searle!
View ArticleRound The Bend in Eighty Days with S J Perelman
I received a great contribution from fellow Searle fan James Burgess who realized that the 1972 Perelman/Searle collaboration was not for Travel & Leisure magazine as I assumed in this post but for...
View ArticleSunday Times
 A nice spread in the 22 November, 1964 issue to promote the release of 'From Frozen North to Filthy Lucre'.
View ArticleLloyd's Bank
 Lloyd's Bank brochure artwork "Making a Small Business Bigger", 1981 "Financing the Farm", 1982
View ArticleThe Nasty King
 'The Nasty King'a magnificent piece recently sold at auction - I have no clue what this would've been for.
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 From'Upper & Lowercase' magazine, 1989. Searle has an interesting take on political satire which he had grown tired of by the late eighties. Here we are almost thirty years later facing LePen's...
View ArticleFrench Theater
Searle's caricatures of French performers for Punch magazine. These are at the Galerie Martine Gossieaux in Paris. See more here
View ArticleWho Killed Hollywood Society?
 For TV Guide. More hereTV Guide, New York, 11 November 1967, Page 27, 'Who Killed Hollywood Society? The Golden Years' by Cleveland Amory
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