Belsky (cartoonist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Belsky (cartoonist)

Belsky [née Owen], Margaret Constance (1919–1989), cartoonist and illustrator

Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1919

Place of Birth: Wareham, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 26-Jan-1989

Profession: illustrator, cartoonist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Belsky (cartoonist)

  • Margaret Constance Belsky née Owen, better known by her nom de plume Belsky, (20 June 1919 – 26 January 1989), was a British cartoonist and illustrator.Belsky was born on 20 June 1919 in Wareham, Dorset to Albert Edward Owen and Margaret Constance Davies-Bunton.
  • She attended the Bournemouth School of Art and later studied engraving and illustration at the Royal College of Art.
  • Belsky won a cartoon competition for Punch in the 1930s.
  • It was at the Royal College of Art that she met her future husband, Czech exile and sculptor, Franta Belsky.
  • Franta introduced her work to editors he knew at the magazine Lilliput, where Belsky became a regular contributor.In 1944, Margaret and Franta married, with Belsky taking on her husband's name for her single word signature, disguising her gender.
  • Belsky started working for the Daily Herald in 1951 and became their first ever pocket cartoonist, at the same time becoming the first woman to draw a daily front-page cartoon.Belsky was dismissive of her own work, calling herself "just a hack." She didn't collect her work, though it was estimated that she may have drawn more than 6,000 cartoons while working for the Daily Herald.
  • When the Daily Herald, later The Sun, was taken over by Rupert Murdoch in 1969, Belsky refused to work for him.
  • Instead she contributed cartoons for many other newspapers and magazines, including The Strand Magazine, Punch, The Guardian, John Bull and Sunday Graphic.
  • She also became an illustrator for children's books, including designing the covers for various Penguin books.
  • Belsky died on 26 January 1989.

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