Low's Autobiovraphy

Michael Joseph 1956
This is the life story of a great political caricaturist. New Zeland and Australia have been the breeding ground of many famous caricaturists and Low describes fhis early years there with insight and humour. In 1919 he came to England to pursue his career. He has now written tthe story of the last half-century, seen through the eyes of a professional commentator with an almost fanatical regard for his own independence and integrity, and an obstinate determination to express his mind freely in terms of caricature. His working life from early days involved him in a constant run of violent disputes not only with his enemies but with his friends, in which hot words were exchanged and insults and taunts mingled with compliments and praise. The most famous of these conflicts were those with Mussolini and Hitler. The story of Low's `private war' against dictatorship is told in full for the first time; of how and why his works were banned from Italy and Germany, of the efforts to stop him criticising Hitler amd Mussolini, and how he was finalluy blacklisted for `liquidation' by the Gestapo; and how the publication of his cartoons spread so rapidly and so widely throughout the world as to make him a major influence on public opinion...