- Tom Webster (cartoonist)
Gilbert Thomas Webster (1886 – 1962) was a British
cartoonist andcaricaturist .Born in
Bilston , West Midlands, Webster specialised insport ing cartoons. He originally worked in a railway booking office and taught himself to draw. In 1904 he won anewspaper cartoon contest, and this started off his career in cartooning. He started out at the "Birmingham Sports Argus ", then later the "Evening News", before joining the "Daily Mail " in 1919. He specialised in cartoons ofhorseracing ,cricket andgolf , and stayed at the "Mail" for over twenty year. In his capacity as a sports cartoonist, he became friends and golf partner with Arsenal managerHerbert Chapman , and one account says it was a combination of clothing worn by Webster that inspired Chapman to add white sleeves to Arsenal's red shirts.cite weburl=http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?thisNav=The+Club&article=344300&Title=Kit+Design
title=Arsenal Kit Design
work=Arsenal.com
accessdate=2006-12-08]
Webster also worked on caricaturising
politician s, so much so that on the night of the 1929 general election, a selection of his cartoons was shown in public inLondon 'sTrafalgar Square . He left the "Daily Mail" in 1940, but continued to draw for other newspapers, and his own range of annuals, until 1960. He died in 1962, aged 76.References
*cite web
url=http://lambiek.net/artists/w/webster_tom.htm
title=Comic Creator: Tom Webster
work=Lambiek.net
accessdate=2006-10-13
*cite web
url=http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9526240
title=Tom Webster Biography
work=Biography.com
accessdate=2006-10-13Footnotes
External links
* [http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=3010424&a=31636025 Gallery of his work]
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