Raymond Jackson ("JAK")

Raymond Allen Jackson aka JAK ( born March 11, 1927 in London, † July 27, 1997 ) was a British cartoonist. By his own admission he was the first who had caricatured the Queen.

Life and work

Jackson, son of a tailor, had to wear a glasses due to its short-sightedness of early childhood. He studied from 1941 to 1943 at an art school and served from 1945 for three years as an art teacher in the Royal Army Educational Corps. From 1948 to 1950 Jackson completed a design study to initially work for a magazine publisher and then for an advertising agency. In 1952 he joined the advertising department of the Evening Standard, where he got transferred the art side and the illustration of the sports page a short time. After a stay abroad and the suicide of Victor Weisz, he became his successor as political cartoonist of the Evening Standard. Jackson, who signed with JAK, also drew for the Mail on Sunday, Daily Express and Sunday Express. He died at his home in Wimbledon in July 1997. Several books have been published with his cartoons.

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