Wally Fawkes

Wally Fawkes (* 1924 in Vancouver ) is a Canadian -derived, since 1931 living in the UK jazz clarinetist and artist, cartoonist and illustrator.

Wally Fawkes left in 1931 with his family in Canada, came to England, where he has lived ever since. He was the late 1940s, founding member of the Revival Band of Humphrey Lyttelton and remained until 1956 in this formation, which had evolved in this era of " revivalism " mainstream jazz. Periodically he worked since then to continue with Lyttelton and Bruce Turner, Keith Ingham and Stan Greig, but remained an amateur musician. In the early 1970s he played with George Melly and John Chilton in the Feetwarmers band.

He was henceforth known as a cartoonist under the pseudonym trough; He created the cartoon Flook, who was popular in the 1960s. For the texts of the cartoon he worked for many years, among other things with George Melly, Barry Norman, Humphrey Lyttelton and Barry Took. The comic strip Flook appeared from 1949 to 1984 in the Daily Mail; central characters of the comics were a little boy named Rufus and his animal friend Flook. An eye disease forced him in 2005 to give up his work as a cartoonist and he again focused more on the clarinet.