Napier Dunn Passes Away at 67



South African cartoonist Napier Dunn has passed away at age 67.

Dunn led one of the more far-flung, fascinating lives of a modern cartoonist, living and working on three continents. The son of Edward Dunn, an orchestra director, he was a musician in addition to being an artist, playing with his father's orchestra, various ballet companies and orchestra in England, the SABC Symphony in Johannesburg, and finally the London Philharmonic. He became interested in cartooning while in the Far East playing music, selling cartoons to a local paper. He worked for the Mainchi Daily News, spent three years at the South China Morning Post, did freelance art while in San Francisco, and was employed by a paper in Anchorage, Alaska. In 1991 he returned to South Africa and worked primarily as a cartoonist and artist. He had a kind of big-headed caricature style; above is one of his recent building illustrations.

He also played in the Grenadier Guards band, taught English in Japan, lectured, painted, and worked on a cruise ship.

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