BRILLIANT N.Z. CARTONNIST’S BOOK

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 519, 23 November 1928, Page 14

BRILLIANT N.Z. CARTONNIST’S BOOK

DAVID LOWS BOOK. —In “Lions and Lambs,” a selection of tlxe work of Mr. David Low, famous New Zealand-born caricaturist, is published. Reviewing the book Mr. Bohun Lynch writes: “When Low’s single, ‘straight’ caricatures began to appear in the ‘New Statesman,’ people interested in this delightful, rare, and difficult art were pleased and astonished —astonished because Low’s every-day and popular work had scarcely promised so well. It had been palpable that he could draw, but that was of no account. So long as he can make his meaning clear the caricaturist is not called upon to draw correctly. Nor, by the way, is the art after all so very rare: full many a caricaturist draws unseen and wastes his venom on the private blot-ting-pad. It is the newspaper with the courage to print the caricature that is uncommon, that is to say, when the caricaturist refuses to compromise. How often do we read, that So-and-So's pen is never dipped in gall, that Such-and-Such’s work is wholly without malice —quite as though malice were a cardinal vice in caricature? Well, no one with half an eye can say that of Low, who is a real caricaturist, obviously detests compromises, and puts down what he sees—and then some!”