A COLLECTION OF 3 VINTAGE 1970S GILES DAILY EXPRESS CARTOONS ISSUES 29; 30 AND 31

A COLLECTION OF THREE VINTAGE 1980S GILES CARTOONS PUBLISHED BY THE DAILY EXPRESS NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
THEY INCLUDE ISSUE 29 FROM 1975; ISSUE 30 FROM 1976 AND ISSUE 31 FROM 1977. SOME OF THE CARTOONS FEATURED IN THESE ISSUES POKE FUN AT DAILY LIFE AND ISSUES OF THE TIME HAVE A LOOK AND ENJOY.

OF PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THESE ISSUES IS CARTOONS POKING FUN AT THE INTEREST IN THE LOCH NESS MONSTER OF SCOTLAND THAT WAS PREVALENT ATTHE TIME. NOTE ALSO THE FRONT COVER AND BACK COVER SHOULD BE SEEN TOGETHER THE ENJOY THE AND UNDERSTAND ALL THE SUBTLE NUANCES.
 
Sean Connery: The Giles annual is always a marvellous yearly backlog of what we have all been through and how absurd, mad, sad ridiculous and funny life, politics, religion and the world is.
 
CONDITION: SOME PAPER DISCOLORATION SHOWING THEIR AGE. BINDINGS IN TACT. NO PAPER TEARS. SOME MINOR WRINKLES.
 
SIZE: 25,5CM WIDE 19,5CM HIGH ON AVERAGE 1CM THICK
 
THE DAILY EXPRESS (1900-present)
The Daily Express is a national daily United Kingdom middle-market newspaper printed in tabloid format. Published in London, it is the flagship of Express Newspapers, owned by publisher Reach plc. It was first published 122 years ago as a broadsheet in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson. The paper rose to become the largest circulation newspaper in the world going from2 million in the 1930s to 4 million in the 1940s. Its current circulation is a mere fraction of that at 173,372 (as of February 2023).
 
GILES CARTOONS:
For fifty years cartoons by Carl Giles in the Express newspapers reflected the state of the nation. It was wartime when Giles joined the Express after a stint as a war artist. At first it was the familiar wartime characters: GIs, Hitler and Mussolini that featured in his thrice weekly cartoons.
So, in the peaceful summer of 1945 he had to find a substitute and the Giles family was born. It was the antics of the Giles family(the twins, Vera and Grandma) that particularly caught the imagination of the general public.
The first collection of cartoons reproduced from the Express Newspaper between 1943- 1945 sold 140,000 copies. Numbers 2 and 3 in the series followed in 1947 and 1949, and editions thereafter followed annually, until the cartoonists death in 1995.
Since that time an annual reproducing Giles cartoons has still appeared in time for Christmas. With more than half a million copies sold each year, later editions of the annual are widely available, but the first ten issues are much more elusive.
Carl Giles had a memory for detail and carried out meticulous research for his cartoons which he drew using a variety of media, charcoal, pen, gouache and crayon. He had many fans which included the Royal family to whom he gave several original cartoons.
 
PLEASE ALSO SEE MY OTHER ITEMS LISTED. I HAVE SOME MOREGILES CARTOONS AS WELL AS SOME OTHER VINTAGE BOOKS ON AUCTION THIS WEEK. COPYTHE URL UNDERNEATH AND PASTE INTO GOOGLE AND IT WILL TAKE YOU DIRECTLY TO ALLMY LISTINGS THIS WEEK. NOTE ALL MY AUCTIONS END AT 22H30 SO IT IS ADVISABLE TOPUT IN AN AUTOMATIC BID (HIGHEST PRICE YOU ARE WILLING TO PAY) EARLY.
>>>>     https://www.bidorbuy.co.za/seller/3685641/ErnRex1545