Typography at the College of Art. It was an agreeable place - but not very exciting
Here
I am giving a student
some really interesting
advice.
I
was still writing songs in my spare time but with no great sense of purpose.
I’d lost touch with the London Folk & blues scene, and there were no clubs in the area where I could test my songs out. And so my mind turned to other things. Why cartoons I don’t know.
But one day I thought of a joke, drew it up and sent it to the editor of ‘Punch’. It was politely rejected. But I wasn’t put off. I sent it to the ‘Daily mirror - it was accepted. And they sent me a cheque for £5 - which in those days was enough to pay for a weeks groceries.
What more incentive did I need?
From that time on, for about 2 years, I posted off a dozen or so Cartoons to one or other of the daily newspapers. In a good week 3 or 4 would be accepted. The jokes didn’t have to be screamingly funny. As long as the editor ‘got it’ that was good enough.
I’d lost touch with the London Folk & blues scene, and there were no clubs in the area where I could test my songs out. And so my mind turned to other things. Why cartoons I don’t know.
But one day I thought of a joke, drew it up and sent it to the editor of ‘Punch’. It was politely rejected. But I wasn’t put off. I sent it to the ‘Daily mirror - it was accepted. And they sent me a cheque for £5 - which in those days was enough to pay for a weeks groceries.
What more incentive did I need?
From that time on, for about 2 years, I posted off a dozen or so Cartoons to one or other of the daily newspapers. In a good week 3 or 4 would be accepted. The jokes didn’t have to be screamingly funny. As long as the editor ‘got it’ that was good enough.
in the Daily Mirror in 1965.
