SEASIDE “McGill is a clever draughtsman with a real caricaturist’s touch in the drawing of faces, but the special value of his post cards is that they are so completely typical. They represent, as it were, the norm of the comic post card. Without being in the least imitative, they are exactly what comic post cards have been any time these last forty years, and from them the meaning and purpose of the whole genre can be inferred.” George Orwell, ‘The Art of Donald McGill’ 1
‘I feel a lethargy creeping over me.’ ‘I don’t wonder. This darn beach is crawling alive with ‘em!’
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