David Low (cartoonist) from the Evening Standard and The Manchester Guardian, as well as original caricatures from his "New Statesman" series. Australia David Low (cartoonist) Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (7 April 1891 – 19 September 1963) was a New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years. Low was a self-taught cartoonist. Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney in 1911, and ultimately to London (1919), where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his merciless satirising of the personalities and
The Evening News (London newspaper) with financial problems and falling sales as television was eating away its market share. It switched from broadsheet to tabloid in September 1974 and stopped printing on Saturdays in June 1979. In October 1980 Associated Newspapers announced that the newspaper would be closed at the end of the month. The last issue was on 31 October 1980. The paper was merged with its long-time rival the "Evening Standard". For some time the resulting paper was called the "New Standard". The name "Evening News" continued to feature on the titlepiece of the "Evening Standard" until the relaunch of the "Evening News"