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John Glashan (born John McGlashan, 24 December 1927 – 15 June 1999) was a Scottish cartoonist, illustrator and playwright. He was the creator of the "Genius" cartoons. Glashan's cartoons typically included small pen-and-ink figures drawn over a fabulous backdrop often featuring fantastic Gothic or imaginary architecture, surreal landscapes or gloriously impractical ingenious-looking machines. ==Life and work== Born in Glasgow and the son of a portrait painter, McGlashan studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art after national service in the army. He moved to London with the intention of making a living from painting portraits, but was unable to do so. After switching to cartooning and illustrating he curtailed his name to "Glashan". Glashan's cartoons appeared in ''Lilliput'', ''Harpers & Queen'', ''Private Eye'', ''Punch'', and various London newspapers, as well as ''Holiday'' and the ''New Yorker''. A series of humorous guidebooks created with Jonathan Routh in the late 1960s allowed extensive expression of Glashan's graffiti-like style, combining small figures (often bearded men) with scrawled text - but, even here, often with elaborate backdrops. The "Genius" cartoons, which allowed Glashan to use colour and a great expanse of space, ran in the ''Observer Magazine'' from 1978 to 1983, whereupon he concentrated on landscape painting. His cartoons reappeared from 1988 in the ''Spectator''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Glashan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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