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The Daily Howl provides the first evidence of John Lennon's unconventional writing talent and sense of humour. Devised whilst a pupil of Quarry Bank school in circa 1957, Lennon lampooned the teachers and others in caricature sketches, prose text and verse compiled in an exercise book which he would surreptitiously circulate amongst friends during class at school, and later at art college. It is through the pages of the Daily Howl that, as John Robertson wrote, we first find out about John Lennon the individual...with its mix of word-play, scurrilous invention and lightning...caricature [The Daily Howl] was the clearest ancestor of In His Own Write and A Spaniard In The Works..., Lennon's first two books, both published by Jonathan Cape in 1964, and 1965 respectively. Numerous reviews of these works at the time of publication were, as Herzogenrath and Hansen wrote...overwhelmingly positive, not only drawing parallels to James Joyce, but also suggesting that Lennon's work was modelled on Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and James Thurber...the combination of text and illustration in Lennon's books merely hinted at his talent for embracing a variety of media in his art...
During the 1950s, when Lennon was growing up in Liverpool, Robert Mitchum was the star of several film noir productions that were hugely popular both in the U.S. and the U.K. According to the vendor, Rod Murray, Mitchum...had the sort of hard man character that John liked, even down to the almost Tony Curtis hair style. Coincidentally, years later, during a trip to Los Angeles, Murray met Robert Mitchum through mutual friends...in conversation during a meal one night, I told him that I had a picture of him done by an old mate of mine; when I told him it was by John Lennon he was somewhat taken aback....
These two pages are similar to another Daily Howl page, and a cartoon entitled Keen Type, sold through these rooms on 30th April, 2002 for £32,900. Prior to the auction in 2002, very few Daily Howl pages, or cartoons from this period had come on the market. The Daily Howl page and cartoon offered here represent the last of such material from Rod Murray's collection.
During the 1950s, when Lennon was growing up in Liverpool, Robert Mitchum was the star of several film noir productions that were hugely popular both in the U.S. and the U.K. According to the vendor, Rod Murray, Mitchum...had the sort of hard man character that John liked, even down to the almost Tony Curtis hair style. Coincidentally, years later, during a trip to Los Angeles, Murray met Robert Mitchum through mutual friends...in conversation during a meal one night, I told him that I had a picture of him done by an old mate of mine; when I told him it was by John Lennon he was somewhat taken aback....
These two pages are similar to another Daily Howl page, and a cartoon entitled Keen Type, sold through these rooms on 30th April, 2002 for £32,900. Prior to the auction in 2002, very few Daily Howl pages, or cartoons from this period had come on the market. The Daily Howl page and cartoon offered here represent the last of such material from Rod Murray's collection.