Gale, George (1929 - 2003)

George Gale original cartoon artwork.

George Gale began his career as a freelance cartoonist, contributing work to newspapers and magazines such as Tit-Bits, She and the Evening Standard. Gale later began producing regular cartoons for Tribune and Socialist Commentary, although he was never himself a socialist. William Rees-Mogg, editor of The Times, saw some of the Tribune cartoons and in 1973 invited Gale to draw political cartoons for the paper's newly launched "Europa" supplement.

In 1977, Gale began contributing to the Economist, Financial Times, and other European newspapers and magazines, as well as to The Times until 1980. After that he drew cartoons for his local Richmond and Twickenham Times until 1986, when Max Hastings, editor of the Daily Telegraph, invited him to fill the place of Nick Garland, who had left the paper to help found the Independent. Gale worked as the political cartoonist on the Daily Telegraph until 1990, when Hastings invited Garland to return to the paper. Gale accepted the return of Garland "with his characteristic good humour and lack of bitterness", and returned to freelance work, becoming editorial/political cartoonist of the parliamentary weekly, The House Magazine, for which he drew covers and political caricatures.