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Larry Parks: New York
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Larry was one of the most popular and ubiquitous of British cartoonists. In particular, there was his everyman figure, popularly known as Larry’s ‘Man’, trying to come to terms with the many challenges thrown up by daily life. At different times, the character appeared in almost every newspaper and magazine, and can still be seen on packaging for WH Smith and Lakeland Plastics.
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Larry had tried to keep on top of e-mail during his absence. Even so, he counted two dozen new messages from Singapore having to do with the project--or, as he'd come to refer to it, "The road to hell." There were another ten from members of his domestic team.
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In the event, this gave Larry the push that he needed and, by 1957, he had gained sufficient confidence to go freelance. Larry made his reputation in the early 1960s with the character initially known as ‘Man in Apron’. He was created in response to a suggestion by Russell Brockbank, the art editor of Punch, that he take up the then novel theme of an established husband attempting to be a New Man. The resulting cartoons proved a great success, especially when published in the US in volume form, and they established Larry as a great visual poet of the quotidian. His genius for the pure captionless gag drew on a long tradition of comedians as well as cartoonists, and soon made its presence felt throughout and beyond the printed media.
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