Walter Ernest Fawkes nicknamed Trog was a British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and satirical cartoonist best known for drawing cartoons for various newspapers and playing jazz alongside famous musicians in the 1950s. Fawkes was nicknamed Trog for playing jazz in bomb shelters during the World War II after an illness prevented him from serving. He later used the nickname as his pen-name in his cartoon publications. After the war he took a weekly course at the Camberwell School of Art in 1947. In 194... moreWalter Ernest Fawkes nicknamed Trog was a British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and satirical cartoonist best known for drawing cartoons for various newspapers and playing jazz alongside famous musicians in the 1950s. Fawkes was nicknamed Trog for playing jazz in bomb shelters during the World War II after an illness prevented him from serving. He later used the nickname as his pen-name in his cartoon publications. After the war he took a weekly course at the Camberwell School of Art in 1947. In 1948. He was an accomplished clarinetist and soprano saxophonist, Fawkes co-founded the Humphrey Lyttelton Band in 1948. While Fawkes was pursuing his music career he was also concurrently building his career as a cartoonist under Leslie Illingworth’s wing at The Daily Mail. It was there that he helped to create the Flook strip which provided satirical commentary on contemporary life which ran from 1949 to 1985. He was also political cartoonist for the Observer from 1971 to 1985. He also worked for the Sunday Telegraphy and retired at age 81 due to poor eyesight. Fawkes was named Political Cartoonist Of The Year in 2004 and his work was celebrated with an exhibition at the Cartoon Museum of London in 2013.
