Giles The Cartoonist

He was born Ronald Giles in Islington, London in 1916. His faculty-friends dubbed him "Karlo" when the actor Boris Karloff to whom they believed he bore a resemblance. This was later shortened to Carl and it stayed with him for the rest of his life.
He left school when he was 14 years of age and commenced working as an workplace boy for a Wardour Street film firm where he was later promoted to an animator for cartoon pictures. This led in 1935 to his employment by the famous producer and director Alexander Korda on the first full-length British sound-tracked colour cartoon film, The Fox Hunt.
After a temporary time working in Ipswich, he joined Fleet Street in 1937. He worked as a cartoonist on the weekly newspaper Reynolds News where his work came to the attention of the editor of the Sunday Express and he was offered employment operating for both the Daily Express and Sunday Express at the not inconsiderable salary of 20 guineas a week. His 1st cartoon for his new employers appeared within the Sunday Express in October 1943.
The twenty guineas a week proved a portent of greater fortunes to return as by 1955 he was being paid no less than eight,060 GBP per week for manufacturing 3 cartoons. He was currently a wealthy man.
In 1959 he was awarded the OBE and among his greatest admirers and fans were members of the Royal family who frequently received originals of his work.
His most well-known character creations were The Giles Family who first appeared in August 1945. They were a family from the additional affluent aspect of the British working class living in a very suburban semi-detached house. The pinnacle of the family was Grandma a real battle axe of someone whom anyone crossed at their peril. She is currently immortalised as a bronze statue standing in Queen St Ipswich looking up at the office where Giles used to try and do his work.
They were used by Giles to treat a topical event within the news of the day and proved to be highly patriotic although vigilant of authority. One exceptional attribute of the family was that although their homes, hobbies and clothing reflected the changing standards of the day, their ages were unchanged although the cartoons ran for 46 years.
These days any middle-aged, middle class Englishman (or lady) can have happy recollections of the Giles Annual. This was a terribly welcome addition to the Christmas stocking and contained a choice of Gile's work for the previous year. For several years this collection was chosen by Giles himself.

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