Jack B Yeats: Cartoonist

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CARTOONS SHOWING the dry, quirky humour of painter Jack B Yeats will go on public display for the first time on Saturday.

The 56 illustrations by the Irish artist are part of 500 published in British satirical magazine Punch under his pseudonym, W Bird, between 1910 and 1948.

Pft. He’s no Martyn Turner.

Satire about social class, professions, everyday life and political commentary are among the subjects tackled by Yeats, co-curator (at the National Gallery of Ireland) Donal Maguire said. Many of the illustrations “don’t fit with the current humour and are very much of their time”, he added.

Oh wait now.

Jack B Yeats cartoons to go on show for first time (Genevieve Carberry, Irish Times)

Image: Irish Comics Wiki

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