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Long Drawn Out Trip: A Memoir

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Gerald Scarfe tells his life story for the first time. With captivating, often thrilling stories, he takes us from his childhood and early days at Punch and Private Eye, through his long and occasionally tumultuous career as the Sunday Times cartoonist, to his film-making at the BBC and much-loved designs for Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Disney’s Hercules. Along the way he has drawn Churchill from life, gone on tour with The Beatles and thoroughly upset Mrs Mary Whitehouse. It is a very personal, wickedly funny and caustically insightful account of an artist’s life at the forefront of contemporary culture and society.

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In Long Drawn Out Trip: My Life, Gerald Scarfe tells his life story for the first time. With captivating, often thrilling stories, he takes us from his childhood and early days at Punch and Private Eye, through his long and occasionally tumultuous career as the Sunday Times cartoonist, to his film-making at the BBC and much-loved designs for Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Disney’s Hercules. Along the way he has drawn Churchill from life, gone on tour with The Beatles and thoroughly upset Mrs Mary Whitehouse. It is a very personal, wickedly funny and caustically insightful account of an artist’s life at the forefront of contemporary culture and society.

Additional information

Weight 0.252 kg
Dimensions 19.6 × 12.6 × 2.2 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

276 , 16 unnumbered of plates

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

741.56942 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K