Tom Gilbert Webster was already working for the Evening News when he was noticed by Daily Mail owner Lord Northcliffe in 1919 for his sport cartoons and caricatures. A dedicated golfer, Tom Webster also wrote several articles on golfing, and he was the first artist to produce a running commentary on a fight between Tommy Noble and Joe Simmons. In 1929, on the night of the general election, the popularity of Webster's cartoons was quite evident when a selection of his work was projected on a giant screen in Trafalgar Square. He kept working for the Daily Mail until 1940.
|
