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) 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