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About Ewen Bain
- Ewen Bain (23 June 1925 – 18 December 1989) was a Scottish Highlander cartoonist, whose most notable creation was the Angus Og comic strip, a stereotypical depiction of the quintessential 20th century Highlander, which ran in the Glasgow-based newspaper the Daily Record, and its sister title The Sunday Mail.
- He also regularly contributed political cartoons, often of a pro-Scottish independence nature, to these, and other, newspapers. Bain's family came from Skye, Highland.
- He was born in Maryhill, educated at Woodside School, Glasgow, and at the Glasgow School of Art.
- Bain was by profession an art teacher, who taught at both Allan Glen's and Kingsridge Senior Secondary Schools.
- In 1969 he gave up teaching to concentrate full-time on his cartoon work. In addition to his work for the daily press, Ewen Bain was also very supportive of the monthly, pro-independence Scots Independent newspaper, contributing a long series of editorial cartoons to the publication between 1978 and his death in 1989.
- He also helped many Scottish National Party candidates with contributions to their election material.
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