- T. O. Honiball
Thomas Ochse Honiball (1905-1990) was a well known South African
cartoon artist.T.O. Honiball (as he was commonly referred to) was born on 7 December, 1905 in
Cradock, Eastern Cape ,South Africa . He originally studied architecture at theUniversity of Cape Town . However, he needed a less structured way to express his artistic capabilities and from 1927 to 1930 he lived inChicago where he studied commercial art. During this period he was introduced to American cartoons.On his return to
Cape Town he worked in advertising and later as freelance caricaturist and cartoonist. In 1941 he became the political cartoonist for a majorAfrikaans newspaper group, and quickly became one of the best known South African cartoon artists.In addition to his political cartoons he also published the Oom Kaspaas series, wherein Uncle Kaspaas boasts about his colorful past to his cousin "Nefie" - always to be reminded by some unfortunate event of what had really happened.
He loved to portray animals as having human personalities and qualities, and he produced two series to that effect. Jakkals en Wolf covered the good and bad times of two friends, a jackal and a wolf, while Adoons-Hulle related the experiences of a baboon family from the
Magaliesberg .On retiring in 1974, he held his first solo exhibition in
Pretoria and continued his political caricatures and cartoons until 1978. He died on 22 February, 1990 in Montagu.Family
He married Iona Boesen in 1934 and they had four children. After Iona's death in 1971, Honiball married Essie de Villiers - Dreyer (Esther Maria Wiese) in 1973.
External links
* [http://www.stellenboschwriters.com/honiball.html Stellenbosch Writers]
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