Mel Calman

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Mel Calman


Born
in Hackney, London, The United Kingdom
May 19, 1931

Died
February 10, 1994

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Influences
Osbert Lancaster


Mel Calman was born in Hackney, the son of Russian-Jewish parents, but he was evacuated to avoid the Blitz. He was relocated on the outskirts of Cambridge and attended the Perse School, were he stated that he found it really hard work even to come bottom at that school.

Wanting to read English at Cambridge he failed to get into the University, mainly for financial reasons. He tried to secure a course for journalism but it was full so he decided to fall back on a latent desire to draw. And on that subject he later said that he became a cartoonist because at art school they laughed when he sat down to draw.

His first nationally published work was for the 'Daily Express' and as an instant topical cartoonist at the end of BBC TV's celebrated ne
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Let's Compromise and Say I'...

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My God

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The Penguin Mel Calman

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What elsedo you do? Some sk...

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A Little Light Worrying: Th...

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A little light worrying: Th...

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through the telephone direc...

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The New Penguin Calman

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Help! and other ruminations

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