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Born in Bishopsgate, London, Strube first worked
as a draughtsman for a furniture company before joining
a small advertising agency. He studied at the John
Hassal Art School after which he began producing cartoons.
He sold his first work to the Conservative and Unionist
magazine in 1909, soon after which he began producing
a weekly cartoon for Throne and Country. From 1912
to 1948 Strube was the Daily Express's editorial cartoonist.
For many of those years, the paper had the largest
circulation in the world, and Strube became the most
popular cartoonist of the inter-war period. He ridiculed
the Nazis and thus found the Daily Express being banned
in the nineteen-thirties in Germany, and himself of
their hitlist during the Second World War. Strube
was a notable member of the London Sketch Club in
the 1930s.
Information taken from: 'Political Cartoon
Society', http://www.politicalcartoon.co.uk/html/exhibition.html,
Accessed 16 August 2002, and 'Sidney Strube', http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jstrube.htm,
Accessed 16 August 2002; Farman, J., 'galleryonthegreen.co.uk',
http://www.galleryonthegreen.co.uk/mainfiles/sketch/history.htm,
accessed October 03 2003. See also http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/000264.php,
accessed 28 January 2005.
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