About this design
I love the idea of baffoonery . I also love oxymoronic language and English pomposity for its ridiculousness, and further a good side swipe at the establishment is a damned healthy thing.
All of this is embodied in the cartoon character Colonel Blimp , first drawn for the London Evening Standard in the 1930s by David Low who, inspired by the declarations of two military men that ‘cavalry officers should be entitled to wear their spurs inside tanks’, birthed this plump, choleric, walrus moustached, towel-clad habitué of a West End Turkish bath, and in so doing replaced John Bull, Britannia, and the Lion as the epitome of Britain.
































































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