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Books : Humour : Comic Strips : Giles
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'I'm not going to try to be funny about Giles -because that would invoke disaster. I can't compete with the devastating humour he produces, which embraces all strata of life, and makes them hilarious. What endears me most to him is his gentleness, yet he packs a bigger punch with a feather than our customary satirists do with a sledge hammer.' Spike Milligan Giles made his debut for the Daily Express on 3 October 1943; from that day, for nearly half a century, Giles has delighted the world with his gloriously funny - and uncannily true - cartoon characters. The secret of his work is the greatest of all gifts of genius, the common touch. Now, for the first time, Carl Giles - who has always jealously guarded his privacy - has talked to Peter Tory about his life and long career as Britain's best-loved cartoonist. Giles' war-time
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Glossy paperback with edge wear by Peter Troy- colour & b/w illustrated-Pub:-Headline 1993 presents 192 pages...The Giles family over the years-Book condition:-good tight copy.
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1945 saw the birth of Giles most celebrated creation - the Family. It was on 5 August that Sunday Express readers first saw Father leading his now splendidly familiar and much loved clan down a deserted railway track. behind Father, Mother pushes the brawling twins, and bringing up th erear is th efearsome Grandma. Some of the characters had yet to appear - George the pipe smoking bookworm, Vera the hypochondriac, the spike-haired ruffian Stinker, Butch the dog. That day saw the birth of an institution that was to become as famous and as close to teh british heart as royalty itself - almost an alternative first family. With the help of Carl Giles, Peter Tory reveals the origins of the quintessential British family - and traces, through Giles hilarious yet socially exact cartoons, their chaotic life in th elast fifty years.
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