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Obituary: David Langdon: Newspaper and magazine cartoonist who wittily captured life in wartime Britain
2011
Overview
Say to anyone who rode in a London bus during the second world war, \"I trust you'll pardon my correction\", and it's odds-on that they will come back with the rhyming line, \"That stuff is there for your protection!\" \"That stuff\" was the sticky-backed netting stuck over the inside of every glass window in every bus in town, designed to frustrate any shattering that would otherwise occur during a bombing raid - stuff that many a young Londoner enjoyed peeling away at the corners. The chap who did the admonishing so politely, who wore a black bowler hat, striped trousers and his gas mask in a neat holder slung over one shoulder, the complete uniform of a city gent, was Billy Brown of London Town. Many of [David Langdon]'s dialogue lines are brilliantly tailored words of wit. A munitions worker to the watchman as he departs for home carrying a shell: \"Just want to show the wife.\" An ARP warden to a housewife bathed in light from her window in an otherwise black blackout: \"Good evening, madam. Over two years ago, on the third of September 1939 to be precise, we declared war on Germany . . .\" Wife to hubby: \"I've invited the Hendersons over for the air raid, George.\" And a captionless cartoon of a man leaning, or rather lurking, at a pub bar. On his tin helmet are the words \"Secret Agent\". Langdon's first book of cartoons was called Home Front Lines and was published in 1941. At that time he had just left his post as an executive officer in the London Rescue Service to become a squadron leader in the RAF, where he would serve as cartoonist and eventually editor of the RAF Journal, a monthly magazine published from Adastral House, in Kingsway, central London. Strictly restricted and \"not to be communicated either directly or indirectly to the press\", copies of the journal later turned up occasionally at book fairs and proved to be remarkably good- humoured. The journal had a regular strip starring Billy Brown, \"who stands atop a letter box, admonishing finger raised: 'Hey! Before you post that letter - Couldn't you address it better?'\"
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Guardian News & Media Limited
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