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Stan McMurtry [Mac]
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Stan McMurtry was born in Edinburgh on 4 May 1936, but moved to Birmingham at the age of eight. His father was a commercial traveller. As a child McMurtry was always drawing - sketching figures in the margins of his school books and inventing his own strips. However, his parents were not supportive, his father telling him he’d never make the grade, and that he should concentrate on getting a proper job.
From 1950 to 1953 McMurtry attended Birmingham College of Art, and from 1954 to 1956 he did his National Service in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. He then became a cartoon film animator at Henley-on-Thames, producing films for ITV - two of which won awards at Cannes Film Festivals. His first published cartoon appeared in Today on 7 January 1961, but he did not become a freelance cartoonist until 1965. At first he drew strips for Wham, Buster and other children's comics while also contributing joke cartoons (signed "Stan McMurtry") to publications including Punch and the London Evening News.
In 1968 Norman Mansbridge decided to retire as topical cartoonist for the Daily Sketch, and the editor, Howard French, offered McMurtry the job. He had previously submitted joke cartoons to the paper using his full name, but from January 1969 had to create a topical cartoon every day, and signed these "Mac." Luckily McMurtry enjoyed the pace and energy of daily newspaper production, and was happy with the politics of the Daily Sketch. "I attack the Labour Party sometimes", he admitted at the end of his first year, "and I would hit the Tories just as hard if they were in power and I thought they deserved it": "I did one cartoon about Wilson telling the BBC that 'Britain is right to be proud under Labour' and there was a man holding a newspaper placard telling of the Biafran tragedy. I felt sorry for Wilson as I did it, but the cartoon had to be drawn."
Nurse Cartoon Images Biography
Stan McMurtry [Mac]
BiographyBrowse items by this cartoonist
Stan McMurtry was born in Edinburgh on 4 May 1936, but moved to Birmingham at the age of eight. His father was a commercial traveller. As a child McMurtry was always drawing - sketching figures in the margins of his school books and inventing his own strips. However, his parents were not supportive, his father telling him he’d never make the grade, and that he should concentrate on getting a proper job.
From 1950 to 1953 McMurtry attended Birmingham College of Art, and from 1954 to 1956 he did his National Service in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. He then became a cartoon film animator at Henley-on-Thames, producing films for ITV - two of which won awards at Cannes Film Festivals. His first published cartoon appeared in Today on 7 January 1961, but he did not become a freelance cartoonist until 1965. At first he drew strips for Wham, Buster and other children's comics while also contributing joke cartoons (signed "Stan McMurtry") to publications including Punch and the London Evening News.
In 1968 Norman Mansbridge decided to retire as topical cartoonist for the Daily Sketch, and the editor, Howard French, offered McMurtry the job. He had previously submitted joke cartoons to the paper using his full name, but from January 1969 had to create a topical cartoon every day, and signed these "Mac." Luckily McMurtry enjoyed the pace and energy of daily newspaper production, and was happy with the politics of the Daily Sketch. "I attack the Labour Party sometimes", he admitted at the end of his first year, "and I would hit the Tories just as hard if they were in power and I thought they deserved it": "I did one cartoon about Wilson telling the BBC that 'Britain is right to be proud under Labour' and there was a man holding a newspaper placard telling of the Biafran tragedy. I felt sorry for Wilson as I did it, but the cartoon had to be drawn."
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