The British cartoonist, illustrator, animator and satirist Ronald Searle is featured briefly in the Edinburgh Evening News (my local paper which I normally read and yet I missed this – thankfully Marko at Neorama pointed it out to me). Searle has created cartoons and illustrations for many decades, but he is probably still most famous for creating the fictional all-girls school St Trinian’s. Searle, now 86, was talking about how he was inspired by tales of schooldays from Cecile Johnson when he was stationed in Scotland during the Second World War. Cecile had attended St Trinnean’s School in Edinburgh’s Grange area (later it moved to what is now Edinburgh University’s Pollock Halls of Residence buildings); the school was famous for placing an emphasis on the individual rather than the strict one-size-fits-all curriculum, which lead to a reputation of being a place where pupils did whatever they wished. Searle, as a good satirist, would stretch this out into the wild girls of his similarly named St Trinian’s for his cartoons, the first of which appeared in the magazine Lilliput in the 1940s, with the famous series of films based on his work following in the 1950s; a new film based on his work and starring Rupert Everett is due to be released later this year.
(Searle’s cover for Hurrah For St Trinian’s, published Kingly Books)
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