𝙳𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝙵𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚠𝚛𝚊𝚙As I read this and began to laugh, the local Kookaburra's burst forth outside the window. Not a coincidence, I'm sure.
"[The Steadmans] have all long been part of the community in the small conservation village of Loose, pronounced “lose”, which I know because he famously and merrily upset the local Women’s Institute one year with a drawing titled the “Loose Women’s Institute” for the village calendar."
Top drawer: the 60-year career of illustrator and satirist Ralph Steadman
It’s a grim, grey winter’s day, and outside the tall windows of Ralph Steadman’s Georgian pile in Kent, leaves swoop and dance in the chill wind. The legendary illustrator and political satirist is ensconced at the head of a heavy, oak table in his dining room, gazing out at the weather and ruminating about a lifetime drawing and confronting those he calls “the Menace with a capital M”.