Colonel Blimp Colonel Blimp Colonel Blimp is a British cartoon character by cartoonist David Low, first drawn for Lord Beaverbrook's London "Evening Standard" in April 1934. Blimp is pompous, irascible, jingoistic, and stereotypically British, identifiable by his walrus moustache and the interjection "Gad, Sir!". Low claimed that he developed the character after overhearing two military men in a Turkish bath declare that cavalry officers should be entitled to wear their spurs inside tanks. The character was named after the barrage balloon, which was known as a blimp. Blimp issues proclamations from the Turkish bath, wrapped in his towel and brandishing some mundane
David Low (cartoonist) Hughes entitled "The Billy Book", which he published in 1918, brought Low to the notice of Henry Cadbury, part-owner of the "London Star". In 1919 Cadbury offered Low a job with the "Star", which Low promptly accepted. In England, Low worked initially at the "London Star" from 1919 to 1927. The "London Star" sympathised with his own moderately left-wing views. In 1927, he accepted an invitation from Max Aitken to join the conservative "Evening Standard" on the strict understanding that there would be no editorial interference with his output. Low produced numerous cartoons about the Austrian Civil War, the Italian