January 4, 2007
Grenfell Jones, 1934-2007
The Welsh cartoonist Grenfell Jones, the longtime newspaper cartoonist of the
South Wales Echo died in a hospital in Cardiff early this morning. Better known by his pen name of "Gren," during a career that spanned four decades Jones was one of those cartoonists that became linked to depictions of a way of life, in his case cartoons about a fictional village in Wales called Aberflyarff, featuring sheep characters Nigel and Neville. Another readership knew Gren for his rugby cartoons, which had become collected into popular calendars. He retired from the
Echo in 1999, on his 65th birthday (one source has the retirement coming in 1991). More than two dozen books have featured his cartoons.
Jones was voted best provincial cartoonist four times for his work at the
Echo, and received the MBE civil distinction (a "member" designation in the Order of the British Empire) for his service to the newspaper industry.
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