Giles cartoonist biography

Carl Giles: A life 1) Carl Giles's working day 2) Grandma and the Giles Family 3) Giles at Christmas

1) Carl Giles’s working day

From through to his retirement in , Carl Giles was, by and large, Express Newspaper’s greatest asset.

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Those who regularly read the Daily and Sunday Express during those years would often make a bee line straight for the Giles cartoon, deliberately prioritising it over the paper’s other news stories and features. According to one commentator, "His oblong space in the Express newspapers became a window into which the British public peered day after day to see themselves, reacting to history through more humorous, more tender and infinitely more sensitive eyes.”

Giles was considered indispensable and received a salary that was two or three times as much as that of the editor.

At the height of his popularity, Giles was taken to lunch in London by the Chairman of Express Newspapers, Sir Max Aitken. As the giles cartoonist biography5 PENI