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
London Daily News it into its sister publication and former rival. The "London Daily News" was the first home of the "Alex" cartoon, later published by "The Independent" and the "Daily Telegraph". Maxwell admitted defeat on 25 July 1987 an hour after paying undisclosed damages to Associated Newspapers for accusing it of lying about the "Evening Standard"s circulation figures. Starting the "London Daily News", which published four editions a day, had cost him $40 million (then about £24.96 million), Reuters estimated. His paper was “selling less than 100,000 copies, when minimum sales targets were 200,000 by this time", Reuters reported Maxwell as commenting.