This is one of two cartoons I've got in the new issue of Prospect magazine, and has to be among the more off-the-wall gags that I've had published.
I had the set-up rattling around in my head for a while i.e. someone saying a cloud looks like something, or someone, impossibly obscure, with another person looking on in bemusement. But I couldn't think of a suitable subject.
Then, and I'm not sure how this happened, I hit on the idea of pre-war cabinet ministers. As you do. A spot of Googling later and I found Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1929-1931. The name somehow just seemed to fit the bill. So, thanks Fred (he was a Labour man, he wouldn't mind that.)
Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
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I love this joke!
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, if you squint, it *does* look like him. You've got to squirt *really* hard though.
ReplyDeleteAnother corker Royston! Good work!
Great cartoon, and what a mouthful of a name!
ReplyDeleteAbsurd and hilarious!
ReplyDeleteThat's really strange - I thought it had a strong resemblance to his successor, Walter Elliot!
ReplyDeleteWalter Elliot? Nothing like him. Actually, I did consider, for a moment, drawing a cloud that resembled Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, but then I thought that would be *too* silly.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the nice comments, folks.