Down with Skool!: A Guide to School Life for Tiny Pupils and Their Parents was first published in 1953. Geoffrey Willans had originally created Nigel Molesworth, the Curse of St. Custard's, in the pages of Punch. Nigel's trenchant observations of prep school life and later of the world around him were written in schoolboy language with idiosyncratic schoolboy spelling. Willans and illustrator Ronald Searle collaborated on a total of four Molesworth books that were widely enjoyed in England and elsewhere. History For Sale offers a newsprint cartoon from Down with Skool!, the first of the Molesworth books, autographed by Searle in 1973. The cartoon in question is from Chapter 2, "Boo to Sir, or, Are Masters Nesessessary?" It is part of a Pythagorean proof by Nigel ("Proposition: Masters Are Sloppy and Like Gurls") that appears on page 29.
Note: We are in the midst of Ronald Searle's centenary.
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| They hav got to hav something in their lives besides Caesar pythagoras and other weeds. Ronald Searle Down with Skool (1953) by Geoffrey Willans |
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| Ronald Searle History For Sale |
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| Searle's actual dates are 1920 to 2011, as any fule kno. |
Note: We are in the midst of Ronald Searle's centenary.
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