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
The Evening News (London newspaper) in the late 1980s. The "Evening News" reappeared for few months in 1987 when it was launched by the "Evening Standard's" owners "Associated Newspapers" in order to counter Robert Maxwell's "London Daily News"; this sparked a price war, by the end of which the "Evening News" was being sold at 5p to the "London Daily News"' 10p. The revived newspaper was edited by Lori Miles, one of the first female editors in Fleet Street. Following the collapse of the "London Daily News" in July the "Evening News" continued for a further three months as a separate brand from the "Evening