From: SLAP-A-LIB-AWAKE@I-LOVE-ARTHUR-ASKEY.COM   
      
   In London yesterday for my birthday convivials (that all went swimmingly,   
   with a piggy-back ride down the Mall at 3am to finish up) we discovered an   
   exhibition of the Art of Donald McGill at the Cartoon Art Trust, which   
   resides in a vile National Theatre type piazza of monumental grey ugliness   
   (they ought to crucify the architect for a couple of hours in the middle of   
   it) in Bernard Street near Russell Square tube. It is a rather lovely show   
   and very funny. I learned a lot about the history of the postcard and about   
   long-ago organisations such as the Blackpool Postcard Censorship Board (you   
   fink I'm winding you up?) and facts like McGill's postcards were selling at   
   the rate of two million-odd a week in high season during the later inter-war   
   years up until the fifties. It also contains notes from various legal   
   brouhahas about his work and McGill's repsonses which are deadpan hilarious.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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