Possibly the oldest living illustrator with a connection to Singapore

Posted: March 5th, 2010 | Author: mindflyer | Filed under: Uncategorized, inspiring | Tags: , , , | 6 Comments »

Ronald Searle is 90!! This is another of my illustration heroes.

Did you know he was a POW in SIngapore during WW2? He did a whole series of drawings  while in prison here.

Most inspiring thing about him to me is:

1. He’s still doing “IT” at 90 ( “IT” being “illustration” )

2. His studio is in France!! ( Like my other hero- Robert Crumbs )

3. He never stopped drawing! During his stint as a POW/ artist- he trade cigarettes for drawing paper!!

“He never stopped drawing, despite beatings, bouts of malaria and beri beri, and a Japanese guard’s pick axe in the back.” (quoted from Ronald Searle Biography http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/searle.htm )

More info here- Ronald Searle Tribute http://ronaldsearle.blogspot.com/

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6 Comments on “Possibly the oldest living illustrator with a connection to Singapore”

  1. 1 Fleecircus said at 12:27 pm on March 5th, 2010:

    Dude… its Ronald Searle!!
    its Ronald Searle you’re talking about!!!

  2. 2 mindflyer said at 4:03 pm on March 5th, 2010:

    Just fixed the video link. Sorry about the glitch.

  3. 3 Momo said at 4:49 pm on March 5th, 2010:

    This is more interesting. Six degrees of separation.

  4. 4 Qi xiang said at 11:28 pm on March 5th, 2010:

    Now this is inspiration for the rest of us!

  5. 5 DD said at 2:12 am on March 6th, 2010:

    Brilliant. Inspiring. And I feel like having a beer.

  6. 6 Msxi said at 1:55 am on March 9th, 2010:

    “Illustration and reportage”, i think that is really interesting. I would like to see how newspapers were 100yrs ago..