Mac, Stan McMurtry b.1936

Stan Macmurtry Mac original cartoon artwork.

Mac started out as a cartoon film animator. In 1969 he began working for the Daily Sketch. When the Daily Sketch was absorbed by the Daily Mail in 1971, Mac stayed on replacing Wally Fawkes 'Trog', drawing six cartoons a week and signing them as Mac. Mac was urged by his Editor to be “more politically minded” but he saw himself more as a social commentator, able to “make the dreary news copy of the daily paper brighter by putting in a laugh”. From 1980, Mac always hid a sketch of either Janet or Liz, his second and third wives, somewhere in his cartoons, unless they depicted very serious political events. Mac retired from the Daily Mail in December 2018. In 2019, he started drawing regular cartoons for the Mail on Sunday.