Ronald Searle - RIP

[makropulos]

I hope I'm not duplicating an earlier post - but I've just read that Ronald Searle has died, aged 91.

The wonderful, zany imagination that brought us Nigel Molesworth and the St Trinian's girls is no more.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/03/us-britain-searle-idUSTRE8020CT20120103

[Flay]

I'm sorry to hear that. He was hilariously creative. Chiz chiz

[Chris Newman]

There is so much wonderful naughtiness in his fine drawings. He wrote lovely books with superb illustrations on how he created his gardens .

[MrGongGong]

Sad news
Given that he invented Hogwarts I hope he is recognised by his plagiarists

[amateur51]

I'm sorry to hear that. He was hilariously creative. Chiz chiz

Complete agreement here, Flay!

He has left a great contribution to the humorous life, and a pecualiarly British one at that!

Bravo Ronald Searle!

[Mary Chambers]

I was shocked when I heard this, because I hadn't realised he was still alive. It's always sad when that happens. He is so much someone of the 1950s to me.

Both St Trinian's and St Custard's were perilously close to the truth!

[amateur51]

I was shocked when I heard this, because I hadn't realised he was still alive. It's always sad when that happens. He is so much someone of the 1950s to me.

Both St Trinian's and St Custard's were perilously close to the truth!

A much younger friend, who is passionate about graphic art and British humour, has a birthday coming up & I have just ordered him a Molesworth book and a St Trinian's book from Amazon in honour of RS's life and achievements

[Angle]

Yes, a very sad event indeed. His work lightened most of our lives at one time or another, I should think. No-one surpassed him in the joys of naughtiness.

Somewhere else on Platform 3, someone has mentioned the Penelope Keith in Brian Sibley's YET ANOTHER PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE, which seems to me to have arisen from Ronald Searle's enchanting collaboration with Wendy Toye in ON THE TWELFTH DAY which was shown for many Christmasses in succession on BBCtv.

Dare I boast that I have a Searle original ?

[amateur51]

Yes, a very sad event indeed. His work lightened most of our lives at one time or another, I should think. No-one surpassed him in the joys of naughtiness.

Somewhere else on Platform 3, someone has mentioned the Penelope Keith in Brian Sibley's YET ANOTHER PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE, which seems to me to have arisen from Ronald Searle's enchanting collaboration with Wendy Toye in ON THE TWELFTH DAY which was shown for many Christmasses in succession on BBCtv.

Dare I boast that I have a Searle original ?

Lucky you, Angle!

Mind, you're a bit of an original yourself, Angle

Great to see you back n Happy New Everything

[Angle]

The YouTube link to almost all of ON THE TWELFTH DAY is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRijElQVlVk

[PatrickOD]

I remember reading a horrifying account of his experience as a prisoner of war. I was a boarder at the time. It was a relief to discover his drawings and cartoons at a later date, but seeing his name again brings back the former memory. RIP.

[Anna]

I read Molesworth and St. Custards a couple of years go (but let us not forget Geoffrey Willans) and Fotherington-Thomas, and floating like a gurley Hello Clouds, Hello Sky, has stayed with me as has The Gorilla of 3B

[mangerton]

I read Molesworth and St. Custards a couple of years go (but let us not forget Geoffrey Willans) and Fotherington-Thomas, and floating like a gurley Hello Clouds, Hello Sky, has stayed with me as has The Gorilla of 3B

"As any fule kno." Like 1066 and All That, the whole book cries out for quotation.

[Petrushka]

Like Patrick OD, I first came across RS in connection with his wartime experiences as a POW of the Japanese and it is the drawings he did then that will live in my memory.

[Colonel Danby]

Very sad news: RIP Ronald Searle

As Fotheringham Thomas might have said:

"I forgive you, Molesworth, for those uncouth words"