- Stanley McMurtry
Stanley McMurtry MBE (born
4 May ,1936 )cite web|last=|first=|title=Mac (Stanley McMurtry) (Born 1936)|work=Chrisbeetles.com|date=2008?|url=http://www.chrisbeetles.com/pictures/artists/Mac/Mac.htm|accessdate=2008-06-10] , often referred to as Mac, is a Britishcartoonist . McMurtry is perhaps most famous for his work, since 1970, for British newspaper "The Daily Mail".cite web|last=Goodley|first=Simon|title=People|work=The Guardian |date=2005-11-25 |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/nov/25/uknews2.mainsection|accessdate=2008-06-10]Career
McMurtry's work is essentially apolitical and he views his role as making "dreary news copy of the daily paper brighter, by putting in a laugh".cite web|last=|first=|title=Desert Island Discs - This weeks guest|work=
BBC |date=2008-03-23 |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20080323.shtml|accessdate=2008-06-10]Mac was granted an MBE in the 2003 New Year's honours list for "services to the newspaper industry".cite web|last=|first=|title=MBEs: I-M|work=
BBC |date=2003-12-31 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3357523.stm|accessdate=2008-06-13]Work
To view his cartoons visit [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/coffeebreak/cartoons/mac.html]
In every one of his daily cartoons, Mac includes a small portrait of his wife hidden within the picture. He does not include her when the cartoon makes a political statement, or when it depicts a tragedy. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1040731/Macs-secret-lady-Britains-cartoonist-reveals-hidden-images-wife.html]
External links
* [http://opal.kent.ac.uk/cartoonx-cgi/artist.py?id=113 Stanley McMurtry at the British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent]
References
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