FAMOUS CARTOONIST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18317, 6 February 1923, Page 9

FAMOUS CARTOONIST.

FRENCHMAN FROM INVERNESS

The thousands of people who rejoice in ' the black and white drawing of "Fougasuc" will be interested in Mr. A. A. Milne's revelations in the introduction to Fougasse's latest volume of drawings. Mr. Milne writes:— Of course, we say, tho nationality reveals itself only a Frenchman has just that lino." • •./ £ h P. explanation is simple . • • ,f a P"* 18 " a PP er subaltern, severely wounded at Gallipoli, be{miles the weary years of hospital by drawing little pictures and sending them m to Punch, he may as well call himself Fougasso as anything else. Particularly if Ins real name is Bird, and if a Bird whoso real name 16 Yeats is already drawinL°rJrUCb would have been simpler " -f Of co ' ir ",'„ji stuck to their own names if they hf f 1 bllt it is too late now to t like g e " a bout J*'' , an when a genuine Mr. do anything _o{ , an s comes along, he M. \°TZ call himself Tomkins. Once W-- will have irfdi pa th of deceit, in trodden, the downer . . n<> €rK ] to it m there is B ° e " r lijtist, then, Kenneth Bird fc. We harft&ness. ~ jp of Morar, v^ ssssr i