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
David Low (cartoonist) "Muzzler". After the war, Low is said to have found his name in "The Black Book", the list of those the Nazis planned to arrest in the aftermath of an invasion of Great Britain. His works are featured in many British history textbooks. On 1 September, the Germans invaded Poland from the west and, on 17 September, the Soviets invaded from the east. Low depicted these events in one of his most famous cartoons, "Rendezvous", first published in the "Evening Standard" on 20 September 1939. It satirises the cynicism which lay at the heart of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, showing Hitler