- 1982
- b/w and colour art
- 30.4 cm x 22.5 cm
- Soft cover
- First edition
- Published by Thames and Hudson
- 168pp
- ISBN 0 500 27268 9
When Savoy raised the idea of a new collection Mr Scarfe was very co-operative. His last book had appeared fourteen years earlier (Peter Owen, 1966). Gerald Scarfe is the most technically brilliant and savage of the cartoonists who came out of the satire boom of the Sixties. With Francis Bacon he was, at the time, Britain’s most challenging artist. We met with him a number of times, to help in the new title’s assembly, at his house onCheyne Walk, Chelsea, where his original artwork was stored. It was a great honour to handle these legendary drawings, the very same ones that had radically changed the way we perceive our celebrities and leaders. We planned to package the book to Big O Publishing, publishers of H R Giger‘s Necronomicon, but Big O collapsed. Instead, we set up an introduction between Scarfe and New English Library, who arranged a board meeting to convince Scarfe of the suitability of a joint Savoy/NEL publication. The chemistry didn’t work, and the collection eventually found an excellent home withThames & Hudson. But we did get to have tea and scones with Jane Asher
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