Missed It: Harry Hargreaves, 1922-2004

Somehow in my recent francophile state I missed the very British fact that longtime Punch cartoonist, comic strip author, and children's books illustrator Harry Hargreaves passed away last month until I caught an appreciation by the always valuable Paul Gravett.

Hargreaves' work was generally very, very handsome-looking, and he was one of those cartoonists whose work seemed to pop up in 18 billion places. If you run down one of the standard obituaries you find Dandy, Beano, the Royal Air Force, the British animation industry, various Dutch newspapers, the Comet, the Sun, the London Evening News, Punch, cereal boxes, and buildings of his home country's Wildfowl and Wetland Trust, where he was an honorary fellow. The best-remembered works may have been cartoons of "The Bird" in Punch, where Hargreaves employed a very striking mix of natural drawing and human-like features, and the Pogo-like Hayseeds strip.

You can find various biographies, obituaries and rememberances floating around.

Harry Hargreaves is survived by a wife and their two daughters.
 
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