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) with financial problems and falling sales as television was eating away its market share. It switched from broadsheet to tabloid in September 1974 and stopped printing on Saturdays in June 1979. In October 1980 Associated Newspapers announced that the newspaper would be closed at the end of the month. The last issue was on 31 October 1980. The paper was merged with its long-time rival the "Evening Standard". For some time the resulting paper was called the "New Standard". The name "Evening News" continued to feature on the titlepiece of the "Evening Standard" until the relaunch of the "Evening News"