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British cartoonist Philip Zec was one of 11 children, the son of a Russian Jewish immigrant. After he joined the Mirror in 1937 aged 28, he relentlessly criticised fascism, and his VE Day Mirror front page cartoon was incredibly powerful 1/2 web.archive.org/web/20200508...
May 8, 2025, 6:51 PM
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