Martyn Turner began contributing cartoons to The Irish Times in the summer of 1971. “Do you think The Irish Times will allow me call Edwin Poots a Wee Orange Tit?”Turner is nearly 73, and his first Irish Times cartoon was published 50 years ago this weekend. “The editors who hired me left The Irish Times and then [Douglas] Gageby came back,” he says. Then I was in the office one day, and Gageby said, ‘You know what I really like about your cartoons? Unless you’ve got syphilis – then try penicillin.”To mark the 50th anniversary of Martyn Turner’s cartoons in The Irish Times, you could win a signed collection of his 16 political cartoon books by going to irishtimes.com/martynturner50

Source: The Irish Times June 05, 2021 04:52 UTC