“Hullo, is that 12 Lavender Square? Is that Emily? Oh, Emily, this is Mr. Simpson speaking – would you please go upstairs and see if by any chance I’m in bed asleep—and, if I am, would you please wake me up at once.”

Illustration by Fougasse from British Punch humor/satire magazine, November 4, 1940, Punch Almanack for 1941, pulled from the magazine, not a modern reproduction. Size 8 x 10 1/2 inches. Condition: excellent-- bright and clean, printed on higher quality paper for better color reproduction; the page has also been humidified and flattened for best appearance and is ready for framing (if desired); backside has an unrelated cartoon. 

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Punch, a magazine of humor and satire, ran from 1841-2002. A very British institution renowned internationally for its wit and irreverence, it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration.

WHO IS THE ARTIST?

​Cyril Kenneth Bird – Fougasse (1887-1965) Bird’s first illustrations appeared in Punch in 1916 after he was invalided out of the First World War as a result of a gunshot to the spine at Gallipoli. As a cartoonist, he used the name ‘Fougasse’ – a small antipersonnel mine in the war – to avoid confusion with fellow Punch cartoonist W Bird (W Bird was itself a pseudonym used by the Irish artist Jack Butler Yeats). Bird’s association with Punch was long and important. He was made Art Editor in 1937 and Editor in 1949 (the only cartoonist ever to hold the post). Away from the magazine, Bird is remembered for the ‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’ posters he produced for the Ministry of Information during the Second World War