Ronald Searle (1920-2011), was an English graphic artist, who lived in a remote village in Haut-Provence, France. During the last years of his life and despite his advanced age, his cartoons appeared with weekly regularity in French newspapers. Born in 1920 in Cambridge, he was a regular contributor to the Cambridge Daily News in the 1930's. During the war he was captured by the Japanese and put to work on the 'Death Railway' and building the bridge over the river Kwai. He managed to maintain a remarkable eye-witness report in drawings. After the war, he came to illustrate Nigel Molesworth's "St.Trinian's". On the occasion of his 70th birthday, in 1990, Russel Davies wrote a biography of him, published by Sinclair-Stevenson, London ISBN 1 85619 004 8, Searle passed away in the last days of Dec. 2011.