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Admin History:

Victor Weisz was born in Berlin, Germany in 1913 of Hungarian Jewish parents and studied at the Berlin School of Art.

At the age of fifteen he was producing caricatures and his work began to appear in German newspapers. Weisz adopted a strong anti-Nazi position and for this reason came to Britain in 1935, becoming a British citizen in 1947.

He worked on a number of newspapers and built a reputation as an incisive commentator on political events. He became a cartoonist at the News Chronicle in 1941 and subsequently at the Daily Mirror, Evening Standard and New Statesman. By the 1940s he adopted the pseudonym "Vicky" and became the chief political cartoonist at the Daily Mirror in 1954. He famously portrayed Harold Macmillan as "Supermac"; although intended as a slur it actually helped Macmillan increase his majority in the 1959 general election.

Weisz was married four times and had no children. He suffered from depression and insomnia and committed suicide in February 1966.

Description:

This small collection contains two original Vicky cartoons as well as several cuttings of printed cartoons. There are also cuttings relating to Vicky himself and a small amount of ephemera.