Carl
Giles
was
born in London in 1916. A self-taught artist
he worked as an office boy in a film company before becoming an animator
on advertising films.
Giles joined the Reynolds News
in 1938 where he drew a weekly topical cartoon and a comic strip,
Young
Ernie.
During the Second World War Giles transferred
to the Daily Express where as well
as supplying political cartoons, produced the famous Giles
Family
drawings.
Carl
Giles, The Sunday Express (1945)
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