Arthur Ferrier was a Scottish

Scotland

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 artist

Artist

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, illustrator

Illustrator

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 and cartoonist

Cartoonist

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.

Ferrier was born and started work in Glasgow

Glasgow

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, Scotland as an analytical chemist. He freelanced as a cartoonist for the Daily Record

Daily Record (Scotland)

The Daily Record is a Scottish tabloid newspaper based in Glasgow. It had been the best-selling daily paper in Scotland for many years with a paid circulation in August 2011 of 307,794 . It is now outsold by its arch-rival the Scottish Sun which in September 2010 had a circulation of 339,586 in...

 there. He moved to London

London

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 and drew joke cartoons for a number of weekly magazines, including Punch

Punch (magazine)

Punch, or the London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 50s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration...

, The Humorist and London Opinion.

In 1930,he produced a weekly strip glamour cartoon called "Film Fanny". A London paper, the Sunday Pictorial, published his glamour drawing under the title "Our Dumb Blonde", which ran from 1939 to 1946. A comic strip called "Spotlight on Sally" in the Pictorial was followed by another called "Eve".

In addition to his printed work, Ferrier also painted during World War I

World War I

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. Some of this work is in the collection of the Imperial War Museum

Imperial War Museum

Imperial War Museum is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. The museum was founded during the First World War in 1917 and intended as a record of the war effort and sacrifice of Britain and her Empire...

 in London. He also produced a set of drawings used on sets of china

Porcelain

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 ware from the Royal Albert China Collections.

External links

• Arthur Ferrier - Comic creator (Lambiek comic shop)
• Arthur Ferrier (John Noott Galleries)