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) times. Low was born and educated in New Zealand. His first work was published when he was only 11 years old. His professional career began at "The Canterbury Times" in 1910. The following year he moved to Australia and worked for "The Bulletin". His work attracted the attention of Henry Cadbury, the part owner of "The Star", and Low moved to London in 1919, working for that paper until 1927, when he moved to the "Evening Standard". There he produced his most famous work, chronicling the rise of fascism in the 1930s, the policy of Appeasement, and the conflict of