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Jak, 20th Century
"Well Folks', it's an almost perfect Lift-off!"; and "Mark my Words, first Needles, then it will be Beads, cheap Mirrors, Tobacco, then they'll be landing to Colonise us"
both signed 'JAK'; brush, pen and black ink, black crayon and blue wash, one heightened with white
19½ x 24in. and smaller (2)
"Well Folks', it's an almost perfect Lift-off!"; and "Mark my Words, first Needles, then it will be Beads, cheap Mirrors, Tobacco, then they'll be landing to Colonise us"
both signed 'JAK'; brush, pen and black ink, black crayon and blue wash, one heightened with white
19½ x 24in. and smaller (2)
Literature
Both cartoons appeared in The London Evening Standard, 1965-68. The "perfect lift-off" depicts Apollo 9 at its gantry. The "mark my words" indicated the plan to launch a copper needles ring around the moon to improve communications