McGill, Donald (1875–1962)

English comic-postcard artist. His saucy cartoons, captioned with double meanings, featured outsize women in bathing costumes, paddling alongside weedy henpecked husbands. He drew his first comic card for Asher's Pictorial Postcards in 1905, for whom one popular card sold two million copies, and is estimated to have drawn 500 cards a year for 50 years.

McGill was born in Blackheath, West Midlands. He was a junior to a naval architect, then studied cartooning with John Hassall's correspondence course. His work first received critical attention in George Orwell's Horizon article in 1941.