Featuring works by artists such as Louis Wain, Ronald Searle, Heath Robinson, Wendy Eastwood, Simon Tofield, Anthony Smith, Gemma Correll, Natty Peterkin and Hunt Emerson – and more!

Other stories featured include those who "mentally escaped" with activities ranging from theatre to drawing such as British author and playwright PG Wodehouse and artist Ronald Searle.

Jane Rosenberg got her start as a courtroom sketch artist drawing prostitutes in New York's night court in 1980. Forty-three years later, Rosenberg's newest subject was former President Donald ...

In 1961, he moved to Paris and married his second wife, the artist and stage designer Monica Koenig Stirling, in 1967. From 1977 to Monica and Ronald lived in Tour in Southern France. Monica died in ...

One of Blake’s heroes, Ronald Searle (creator of the St Trinian’s cartoons), moved to France in the 1960s, at the height of his fame.

No cartoonist captured ancient Rome better than Searle. The cover image comes from the second Molesworth book, How to Be Topp, published by Searle and the writer Geoffrey Willans in 1954. The drawing ...

Where Giles and Lancaster spent the war in tolerable comfort, Ronald Searle almost died. In Japanese captivity after the surrender of Singapore, for more than three years he surreptitiously sketched ...

Born in Wales, Jones, 37, has lived in the Bay Area for a number years, working as a storyboard artist for Pixar. His admiration of Searle's art led Jones to set up a blog devoted to his art in 2008.

They were the hell-raising, out-of-control girls who drank, smoked and gambled their way through a totalitarian boarding school while wreaking as much havoc as possible. St Trinian’s became shorthand ...

The satirical sketches depicting the plight of the British PoWs were produced in secret by Captain Harry Witheford (left) and fellow inmate Ronald Searle (right).

The UK has a particularly rich tradition of graphic art – from Hogarth, Rowlandson and Gillray through Randlolph Caldecott, Walter Crane, Beatrix Potter and on to Edward Ardizzone and Ronald Searle.