Parliament on T.V. CUMMINGS (Michael).

Original ink cartoon artwork for The Daily Express. [253 x 413 mm]. Single sided card sheet [253 x 413 mm] with two onlaid sections of card with illustrations depicting Iain Macleod, Harold Macmillan, Rab Butler and Lord Hailsham, signed by Cummings. A caption underneath reads: "Just imagine - we could become household words, national figures, even perhaps as famous as Ena Sharples or David Frost!" (Slightly creased and a few minor marks). [ebc8124].

Daily Express: 20th March, 1963.

Arthur Stuart Michael Cummings, known simply as Michael Cummings began his illustrative career working for the pro-Labour magazine Tribune before eventually moving towards the political right and replacing Sidney Strube as the politcal cartoonist on the Daily Express. Cummings further worked for Punch Magazine for over 30 years, taking over the 'Essence of Parliament' illustrations in 1953 as well as contributing to the Daily Mail, The Times, and The Oldie.

Sir Winston Churchill commented that "Cummings may well become one of the greatest cartoonists of our time" and Michael Heseltine remarked that being caricatured by Cummings was "death by a thousand strokes... but at least I die laughing". Cummings claimed to have been the only cartoonist to have caricatured every Prime Minister from Churchill to Blair.