RONALD SEARLE: Haven't We Met Before Somewhere?

Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI (3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011) was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist and illustrator.

 

We show his cartoons for Haven't We Met Before Somewhere?, 1966.
Searle, concerning himself with the visual probe, travelling for six years,sometimes two or three times a year, up and down Western Germany, sometimes over the Wall into East Berlin, has produced an album of drawings that may prove to be his most brilliant yet. In Germany, where some of these drawings have recenty been published in a magazine, opinions differ :... the insolent smears of a Searle; caricature should critisize errors in a friendly way but not spit in ones face.
...I find Searle's drawing magnificient and pertinent. A small contribution against the widespread opinion that we Germans are incapable of laughing at ourselves.

Frontispiece

The book was published 1966.

München

 Müncherhofbräuhaus

(ganz rechts unten sitzt Adolf Hitler)

Bad Wörishöfen

Lake Constance (Konstanz am Bodensee)

Konstanz

Meersburg Bodensee

Bayern

Hamburg

Bremen

Hannover

Düsseldorf

Bonn

Rhein

Frankfurt a.m.

Heidelberg

Odenwald

Bayreuth

Regensburg

Stuttgart

Black Forest, Schwarzwald

Baden-Baden