Searle had a tough life early on, but laughing and drawing (and champagne) kept him going into his nineties! Waikiki Beach illustration by Ronald Searle. Order Ronald Searle’s America from Amazon.

Q: Do you find yourself imitating Searle's way of drawing? A: I try not to, but once you've seen his work, you can't unsee it. He didn't mentor me as such, but he gave me pointers, and I have them ...

Ronald Searle, artist, limner of St Trinian’s and St Custard’s, died on December 30th, ... Yet in 1961 tired of drawing for Punch or roming America for Holiday magazine he zoomed across to ...

Ronald Searle, who turns 90 on Wednesday, was a major influence on me from the word go. I was drawing Searle eyes and noses and feet and dogs and small boys and old ladies before I was seven.

Ronald Searle, the British ... England. He began cartooning for the local newspaper as a teenager and attended art school at night. In 1986, Mr. Searle’s war sketches were collected in the book ...

Ronald Searle, artist behind the St Trinian's and Molesworth books, is to donate his archive to Germany, believing he has been "trivialised" and "typecast" in his homeland.

Searle was born in Cambridge and started drawing at the age of five, selling his first sketch at 15. He learned his trade in the city before the Second World War intervened and he joined up.