Arthur
Ferrier
(1891 - 1973, Scotland)
While working in Glasgow
as an analytical chemist, Arthur Ferrier freelanced cartoons to the Daily
Record. When Ferrier moved to London, he began to draw joke cartoons for
Punch, London Opinion, The Humorist and other weekly magazines. In the
1930s he started his first weekly strip 'Film Fannie'. With this strip
he was the pioneer of the glamour girl cartoon in Britain. When his newspaper
contract ended in 1939, he created another girl in 'Our Dumb Blonde' for
the Sunday Pictorial. This ran for seven years. In 1945, Ferrier started
'Spotlight on Sally', and his only attempt at a daily strip, 'Eve', ran
from 1953. Arthur Ferrier died on 27 May, 1973.
