Video from Pete Beard
The Singular Comic Art of H. M. Bateman
"The work of H. M. Bateman has featured previously, although not in any great detail, in other videos on the channel. But he is one of the cartoon stylists I admire most, and I know I'm not alone in considering him to be one of the most distinctive British humorous illustrators of all time. Consequently I think he more than deserves his own video. And if the video leaves you wanting more I recommend you visit the website www.hmbateman.com." from the video introduction.
"To many admirers of the art of the cartoon, H.M. Bateman is the most original, the most various, the most brilliant - and, indeed, the funniest - genius of his times. Born in 1887, he was already drawing for publication in his early teens. Surprisingly, prolific and inventive, everything he saw became material, so that his work can be read as a social history of Britain in the first half of the 20th Century and, to an extraordinary degree, as a kind of autobiography. His family and friends; his trips to the fair, to the seaside, abroad; his passions for the Music Hall, for tap-dancing, for boxing, for fishing, for golf; his desperate experiences in the First World War; his car, his house, his vacuum-cleaner; his triumphs and disasters over many years - all find their way in to his cartoons' from the website: hmbateman.com