H. M. Bateman,

Bryant, M. (Ed.),:

ISBN 10: 1853754587 / ISBN 13: 9781853754586

Published by London Prion Books Ltd, 2002

About this Item

First Edition: Hardback, red pictorial laminated bds., cream titles, 170 x 170 mm., 400 g., unpaginated, Foreword by George Melly, illustrated throughout with cartoons by H. M. Bateman, no dw., Fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 8221

Bibliographic Details

• Title: H. M. Bateman,
• Publisher: London Prion Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853754587
• ISBN 13: 9781853754586
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fine Art,

About this title

Synopsis

H.M. Bateman’s marvelously funny cartoons brought him international fame during the middle years of the 20th century, and the very best of his work still represents a timeless comic legacy. Bateman was most celebrated for his “The Man Who…” cartoons—a series featuring hilarious social gaffes in which some lonely figure commits a ghastly faux pas to the amazement or outrage of the assembled onlookers. Indeed, the English obsession with class, etiquette, and order is at the heart of much of his humor. This book now brings together the very best of Bateman’s work in a single volume.

About the Author

Henry Mayo Bateman was born in Australia in 1887 the son of an English shipper. The family returned to England in 1889. He left school at 16 to study drawing at the Westminster School of Art and Goldsmiths College. In his late teens he produced his first humourous drawings and caricatures. He joined the army during the First World War and was invalided out in 1915 with rheumatic fever. Bateman was one of the higest paid cartoonists of his day and produced a considerable amount of work advertising Guiness, among others. Working in pencil, pen, ink and water-colour, he was a master of the cartoon story without words. He gave up cartooning in 1939 to concentrate on painting and died in 1970.