George Worsley Adamson
 
Illustrator and humorist

George Adamson’s cartoons usually appeared on the Diary page of Time and Tide.

Cartoons by George Adamson published from 1955 to 1960 in Time and Tide
Caption/description	Issue	Date	Size	Nature
Penguins---one penguin in lounge suit	Vol. 36, no. 43, p. 1361	22/10/1955	small	line, signed
Traveller abroad, converting Celsius into Fahrenheit at showers	Vol. 37, no. 1, p. 9	07/01/1956	small	line, signed
Sedan chair Boat Race practice	Vol. 37, no. 12, p. 321	24/03/1956	small	line, signed
‘Of course, I can’t even ... ... boil water ... draw a straight line ... grow a good dandelion’ (mayor’s speech)	Vol. 37, no. 25, p. 737	23/06/1956	small	line, signed
The Mathematics of Chance (man in collapsed hammock with book on tummy)	Vol. 37, no. 32, p. 951	11/08/1956	small	line, signed
Scots. Bagpipes/sock-knitting	Vol. 37, no. 33, p. 977	18/08/1956	small	line, signed
Musician dictating to typist	Vol. 37, no. 39, p. 1145	29/09/1956	small	line, signed
Reader in library poring over Roget’s Thesaurus supplement	Vol. 37, no. 43, p. 1289	27/10/1956	small	line, signed
Guy Fawkes in space helmet	Vol. 37, no. 44, p. 1321	03/11/1956	small	line, signed
A Speaker’s Dread Moments	Vol. 37, no. 47, p. 1415	24/11/1956	small	line, 3rd signed
Aids to Thought: the Pen, Rest, Cigarette, Travel, Movement, Water	Vol. 38, no. 2, p. 33	12/01/1957	small	line, signed
Fireman waters creeper with hydrant hose	Vol. 38, no. 8, p. 209	23/02/1957	small	line, signed
Ship of desert (captain and sailor on camel, sailor reading the stars)	Vol. 38, no. 13, p. 377	30/03/1957	small	pen & wash, signed
‘It’s his son, isn’t it, doing interior decorating?’ (highly decorated military man)	Vol. 38, no. 15, p. 441	13/04/1957	small	line, signed
‘Have you got the Revised Version?’ (vicar buying timetable at bus station booth)	Vol. 38, no. 16, p. 473	20/04/1957	small	line, signed
‘and I name this ship Icebreaker III’ (lady using hot water bottle to launch ship)	Vol. 38, no. 19, p. 577	11/05/1957	small	line, signed
The Teaching Staff 1957--8: an informal study (masters posing casually at a table)	Vol. 38, no. 21, p. 641	25/05/1957	small	line, signed
‘Jellyfish.’ Boys at beach with jelly mould for a bucket	Vol. 38, no. 29, p. 897	20/07/1957	small	line, signed
‘old pomp, new circumstances’ (howdah on elephant & on forklift truck)	Vol. 38, no. 30, p. 929	27/07/1957	small	line, signed
Man on stack of deckchairs gets tickets	Vol. 38, no. 41, p. 1249	12/10/1957	small	line, signed
‘For the Yanks are com-ing. The Yanks are com-ing---’ (Three bears dancing in sputnik)	Vol. 38, no. 45, p. 1389	09/11/1957	small	line, signed
Boar’s head being carried	Vol. 38, no. 49, p. 1517	07/12/1957	small	line, signed
Shunting engines crackerpulling	Vol. 38, no. 49, p. 1531	07/12/1957	small	tone, signed
Delivery boy sharpens skates with steel	Vol. 38, no. 50, p. 1585	14/12/1957	small	line, signed
‘Worst Christmas traffic ever’ (penguin comments on expeditionary vehicles)	Vol. 38, no. 51, p. 1617	21/12/1957	small	line, signed
‘Waits & a waitress as you might say Sir’ (butler at window on seeing carol singers outside)	Vol. 38, no. 52, p. 1641	28/12/1957	small	line, signed
Your supper is in the mission (note on cannibal’s cauldron)	Vol. 39, no. 2, p. 33	11/01/1958	small	line, signed
Ici on parle français. Rispies (woman eating her breakfast cereal)	Vol. 39, no. 5, p. 121	01/02/1958	small	line, signed
‘Ike-Ike ... Ike-Ike ... Ike-Ike ...’ (US satellite signals picked up in Russian observatory)	Vol. 39, no. 6, p.153	08/02/1958	small	line, signed
Coxswain drinks from conical flask (shape of megaphone)	Vol. 39, no. 14, p. 421	05/04/1958	small	line, signed
‘Aw--!’ (Schoolgirls in coach party in New Forest on seeing pony)	Vol. 39, no. 20, p. 605	17/05/1958	small	line, signed
O.K. for take-off -mallards	Vol. 39, no. 44, p. 1309	01/11/1958	small	line, signed
‘There’s a lovely moon let’s hit it’ (man at space laboratory)	Vol. 39, no. 46, p. 1365	15/11/1958	small	line, signed
‘several children ...’ (snowballed knights approaching castle)	Vol. 39, no. 49, p. 1449	06/12/1958	small	tone, signed
Xmas and Xmas bills hanging up together	Vol. 39, no. 49, p. 1470	06/12/1958	1/6 page	line, signed
‘Sorry, no Easter cards yet’ (at kiosk)	Vol. 39, no. 50, p. 1517	13/12/1958	small	line, signed
Santa with restive reindeer downstairs	Vol. 39, no. 51, p. 1545	20/12/1958	small	tone, signed
It’s his own fault, he’s been at that pudding solidly all morning’ (bird crashlanding after eating Christmas scraps)	Vol. 39, no. 52, p. 1569	27/12/1958	small	line, signed
Newspaperman writes ‘more snow’	Vol. 40, no. 3, p. 71	17/01/1959	small	line & tone, signed
Castaway knight on raft with chain mail shirt for flag	Vol. 40, no. 11, p. 295	14/03/1959	small	line & tone, signed
‘You are ten stone eleven. After Easter you will return to eleven ten’ (speaking weighing and fortune machine)	Vol. 40, no. 13, p. 357	28/03/1959	small	line, signed
Covent Garden, tradesman with load on his head yet still raising cap to pretty lady	Vol. 40, no. 16, p. 441	18/04/1959	small	line, signed
‘Have you tried a ‘Picture of the Year’ ’ (lady to vase-painting artist)	Vol. 40, no. 18, p. 495	02/05/1959	small	line, signed
Scientist at Space Research Dept. sees satellites after bump at Space Research Dept.	Vol. 40, no. 23, 643	06/06/1959	small	line, signed
Two nuns passing (halos, one of which is a spiral)	Vol. 40, no. 25, p. 699	20/06/1959	small	line, signed
Four priests in car smiling at road narrows sign	Vol. 40, no. 32, p. 841	08/08/1959	small	line, signed
Sistine Chapel: priest walking in with lilo	Vol. 40, no. 34, p. 889	22/08/1959	small	line, signed
Moon with black eye and plaster	Vol. 40, no. 39, p. 1031	26/09/1959	small	line and zipatone, signed
For sale as new one battle two tourneys. Label by suit of armour	Vol. 40, no. 44, p. 1179	31/10/1959	small	line, signed
‘To brother Cedric from the community. A Merry Christmas.’ (monk getting a halo)	Vol. 40, no. 49, p. 1321	05/12/1959	small	pen & wash, signed
‘New roads and long distance marching ... am I tired?’ (recumbent Roman soldier with apple core)	Vol. 40, no. 51, p. 1399: repeat use in the book Rome Done Lightly, p. 3	19/12/1960	small	line, signed
Noise Abatement Society door with Knock notice outside	Vol. 41, no. 16, p. 427	16/04/1960	small	pen & wash, signed
‘We’ll wait and see if it’s Ramon Navarro.’ (Couple on seeing Roman chariot in car park)	Vol. 41, no. 2, p. 27	09/01/1960	small	line, signed
Black oculist (animals on eye-test chart)	Vol. 41, no. 3, p. 47	16/01/1960	small	pen & wash, signed
‘Gruelling 400 metres this morning.’ (man at Trevi at time of Rome Olympics)	Vol. 41, no. 35, p. 997	27/08/1960	small	line, signed

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