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Cartoons by George Adamson published from 1973 to 1985 in Private Eye |
| Caption/description | Issue | Date | Size | Nature |
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| Do not overtake unless you can see 3 miles ahead (very long lorry) |
no. 303, p. 19 |
17/07/1973 |
small |
line, signed |
| Motorcyclist with periscope to see over handlebars |
no. 305, p. 9 |
24/08/1973 |
small |
line, signed |
| Man walks into post watching ambulance and is taken to hospital by that ambulance |
no. 310, p. 18 |
02/11/1973 |
1/3 page |
line, signed |
| ‘School of Harold Lloyd?’ (pair of hands and spectacles on windowsill of window in gallery) |
no. 312, p. 13 |
30/11/1973 |
half page |
line, signed |
| man gets oil down his jacket front from geni holding barrel |
no. 317, p. 20 |
08/02/1974 |
small |
line, signed |
| Owing to difficulties of inflation, negotiation, pressurisation, noncommunication, pollution, depopulation, computerisation, and metrication, things will not be quite as usual. (man looking at big notice) |
no. 319, p. 9 |
08/03/1974 |
1/3 page |
line, signed |
| It’s a book he wrote -- he’s in and out l;ike clockwork since Lending Rights! (staff in library commenting on bespectacled man leaving with book in hand) |
no. 338, p. ?? |
29/11/1974 |
small page |
line, signed |
| I may be a doctor - but I like to think of myself as a dustman, a teacher, an electrician, a plumber, an engine tuner, even an assembly worker, when it comes to claims for pay |
no. 342, p. 14 |
24/01/1975 |
half page |
8 line drawings, first signed |
| Library books as pediment to columns at library entrance |
no. 347, p. ? |
11/04/1975 |
small |
line, signed |
| Pakistani in long lorry load of cabbages |
no. 348, p. 3 |
18/04/1975 |
small |
line, signed |
| I want a Junior Doctor Strike kit (small freckled boy peeping over shop counter) |
no. 363, p. 3 |
14/11/1975 |
v. small |
line, signed |
| Snowballers behind Private Eye header |
no. 365, front cover |
12/12/1975 |
small |
line, signed |
| Puss in Boots on stage wearing ‘brick wall’ platform boots |
no. 366, p. 8 |
26/12/1975 |
small |
line, signed |
| Euroviathan, Eurohire, Eurogipsy |
no. 381, p. 13 |
23/07/1976 |
small |
line, signed |
| Quarantine 3 doleful dogs + happy HMV dog |
no. 383, p. 4 |
20/08/1976 |
small |
line, signed |
| Beware of the increased dog (notice on gate being read by postman) |
no. 398, p. 7 |
18/03/1977 |
small |
line, signed |
| ‘Don’t come for tea. Come just after’ (two ladies) |
no. 400, p. 5 |
05/04/1977 |
small |
line, signed ‘a’ |
| ‘This excellence is disappointing Smithers. You are quite capable of something worse’ |
no. 414, p. 5 |
28/10/1977 |
small |
line, signed |
| Follow that bus (Mystery Tour bus full of uniformed policemen, other coach marked SWP and ‘Down with F’) |
no. 415, p. 13 |
11/11/1977 |
1/3 page |
line, signed |
| Bargain basement 2nd floor |
no. 427, p. 14 |
28/04/1978 |
small |
line, signed |
| ‘Here’s the place. Empty the ashtrays’ |
no. 428, p. 6 |
12/05/1978 |
small |
line, signed |
| ‘Beach overcrowded again’ (two seagulls on beach of gulls) |
no. 436, p. 5 |
11/09/1978 |
small |
line, signed |
| STRIKE/Actionman (game in toyshop window) |
no. 441, p. 4 |
10/11/1978 |
small |
line, signed |
| Euronother (man taking EEC standard insults off shelf) |
no. 444, p. 5 |
22/12/1978 |
small |
line, signed |
| ‘But all our punk records are scratched’ (saleswoman to customer) |
no. 448, p. 6 |
16/02/1979 |
small |
line, signed |
| Bee picketing a drone |
no. 454, p. 6 |
11/05/1979 |
small |
line, signed |
| Turbanned levitator keeping off grass |
no. 465, p. 12 |
12/10/1979 |
small |
line, signed |
| ‘... him and his ‘democratically elected’ ...’ (two hens about cock) |
no. 467, p. 7 |
09/11/1979 |
small |
line, signed |
| Lineman + Busby |
no. 467, p. 8; repeat use in Courier 11/79 |
09/11/1979 |
small |
line, signed |
| ‘Right lads -- remove those secondary pickets’ (Pickets and snowmen) |
no. 471, p. 5 |
04/01/1980 |
small |
line, signed |
| Ship’s bottle washed up on castaway’s island |
no. 480, p. 10 |
09/05/1980 |
small |
line, signed |
| Port bottle with government health warning: In vino veritas. |
no. 4? p. ? |
?/06/1980 |
? page |
line, signed |
| Man on steps of library sees column bases as books |
no. 488, p. 17 |
29/08/1980 |
third page |
line, signed |
| ‘How are we going faster than sound when I can still hear the engines?’ (man in airline seat) |
no. 617, p. xx |
9/08/1985 |
small |
line, signed |
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