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Read full article Photograph: David Redfern/Redferns Wally Fawkes was already an established cartoonist when I arrived in London in the early 1960s. Unusually for the time, he had a terrific line in caricaturing the royal family, as in a Punch cover portraying Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh as the Cockney Pearly King and Queen. I was a huge fan, pasted his work in a scrapbook and probably lifted some of his caricatures.
The genius puppet-master, 80 today, created the original Spitting Image – and now he's back for more Roger Law - Oldie Puppeteer of the Year At 80, when he should be dozing by the fire with his eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, Roger Law has had the temerity to revive Spitting Image, 36 years after it began. It was hard enough back then. I was in my early thirties, he in his early forties, and it nearly killed both of us.
Dirt, dust and dexterity: Roger Law experiences the chaotic life of a ceramicist in Jingdezhen, China’s Porcelain City While millions of oldies are muttering about having to work beyond a pensionable age, I decided at the age of 70 to go and work in the sweatshops of Jingdezhen, China’s Porcelain City, where porcelain has been made for over a thousand years. And I do mean ‘sweatshops’.
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