Edward Tennyson Reed

Edward Tennyson Reed

Edward Tennyson Reed (also ET Reed ; born March 27, 1860 , † July 12, 1933 ) was a British caricaturist and cartoonist.

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After attending Harrow Private School, Reed and his father, who was employed as a ship designer at the British Navy Department, made some extensive trips overseas, including Japan.

Reed began working as a full-time draftsman in the 1880s. In 1889 a cartoon from Reed's pen was published for the first time in Punch Magazine , an influential humorous and political weekly magazine that was one of the most important magazines in British political journalism from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. He got the job after a friend of his had hired the editor of Punch, Linley Sambourne , Reed to succeed Charles Keene. In 1890, Reed's employment at Punch was made permanent and he became a permanent member of the magazine's drafting staff. In the following years he mainly produced cartoon series such as Constrasts , Transformations and Prehistoric Peeps .

In 1894, Reed took over the position of permanent "parliamentary cartoonist" of Punch as the successor to Furniss. H. of the cartoonist on the staff of the magazine who was routinely responsible for contributing caricatures to all matters relating to parliamentary life. In the following years Reed produced hundreds of cartoons, some of which are still better known today, which commented on the political life of the United Kingdom with good-natured derision - sometimes with an admiring element.

Reed gave up the position of permanent parliamentary cartoonist in 1912. Nonetheless, he continued to contribute - albeit on a less regular basis - until his death in 1933, caricatures and cartoons for Punch . During the First World War, Reed also attacked German politicians and military personnel such as Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg or Paul von Hindenburg , whom he ridiculed in the spirit of the Allied war propaganda.

literature

• Shane Leslie (Ed): Edward Tennyson Reed , London 1957.