Welsh Cartoonists - Gren, Joseph Morewood Staniforth, John Kelt Edwards (Paperback)

Chapters: Gren, Joseph Morewood Staniforth, John Kelt Edwards. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Grenfell "Gren" Jones MBE (13 June 1934 - 4 January 2007) was one of Wales's best-known and longest-serving newspaper cartoonists. The son of coal miner Harry Jones, Gren was born in Hengoed in the Rhymney Valley. Aged eight he began drawing caricatures of neighbours and pocket cartoons in the style of Ronald Niebour ("Neb") of the Daily Mail in his hymn book at his local chapel: "Neb was responsible for my first interest in cartoons. I used to go to my grandmother's, who would have the Daily Mail, and I was amazed how the cartoonist could do a different drawing every day." He then started sending pictures to agents, desperate to earn a living from his obsession with drawing. Later, he scribbled in lay-bys, when he should have been selling tiles and machine tools as a travelling rep. From 1958 to 1963 Gren was employed as an engineering designer. Gren's first published drawing was a joke cartoon for Spick