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Famous People’s Foxes

Famous People’s Foxes

Famous People’s Foxes

The fantastic Quentin Blake gives us a jaunty chap with a sackful of poultry and a triumphant glint in his eye. He is obviously on his way back home to his family after a visit to the sheds of those ghastly farmers Boggis,…

Famous People’s Foxes

Famous People’s Foxes

A fox in a Barbour and posh Hunter wellies – this could easily be a new member of Posy Simmonds’s wonderful cast of cartoon characters, along with Tamara Drewe, Gemma Bovery, George and Wendy Weber, smoothie Stanhope and the rest. He’s obviously a bounder,…

Famous People’s Foxes

Famous People’s Foxes

With a cunning which is typical of the species, the fox dreamed up by the novelist Tracy Chevalier has disguised itself as a Siamese cat. It plans to insinuate itself into the house of a cat-loving family, live on a rich diet of…

Famous People’s Foxes

Famous People’s Foxes

John Julius Norwich, historian and former chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund, may well remember Chad, the star of Second World War graffiti, a perky chap sticking his nose over a wall and saying things like ‘Wot, no sugar?’…

Famous People’s Foxes

Famous People’s Foxes

Writer and publisher Diana Athill gives us an action picture, a moment captured as the fox is poised to attack. It could be a scene from Chaucer’s Nonnes Preestes Tale with Chauntecleer, deceived by the fox’s flattery, about to stand…

Famous People’s Foxes

Famous People’s Foxes

Robert Macfarlane, the award-winning travel writer and creator of this image, says: ‘It might be a fox; might be an aardvark . . .’ Since our book entitled Famous People’s Aardvarks is still at an early planning stage, we’re going to settle for calling…

Famous People’s Foxes

Famous People’s Foxes

How clever of children’s author Alan Garner to create such a perfectly supercilious-looking fox with just a few strokes of his pen. Those A-shaped eyebrows convey total disdain as Mr Fox looks down the single stroke of his nose. After…

Famous People’s Foxes

Famous People’s Foxes

Ronald Blythe’s fox, at full stretch and giving an anxious backward glance, is a fine example of what Oscar Wilde called the ‘uneatable’, and it is clear that the ‘unspeakable’ are in full pursuit and gaining on him. We’d expect no less from the…

Famous People’s Foxes

Famous People’s Foxes

The cartoonist Matt first offered this drawing for inclusion in a book called Famous People’s Forklift Trucks. It was rejected, on the grounds that the necessary safety features were not properly displayed. Inexplicably, the drawing was also turned down by Great British Hen-Houses magazine,…

Famous People’s Foxes

Famous People’s Foxes

As you might expect from the nation’s favourite gardener, the spades here are very well executed. The Titchmarsh fox is fluffy and rather glam and its startled expression suggests it may recently have had a facelift. This would make an excellent sign for some…

Famous People’s Foxes

Famous People’s Foxes

Only a churl would suggest that this drawing of a fox by writer and BBC Radio’s Midweek presenter Libby Purves is of an ill-natured dachshund by a tree. In any case, a dachshund could never manage that sort of sly, calculating sideways look. About…

Famous People’s Foxes

Famous People’s Foxes

Is it a vixen or a minx? A vixen perhaps – certainly a fox fatale. She’s just the sort of creation we would expect from the pen of Sue Macartney-Snape, illustrator of the Telegraph’s column of ‘Social Stereotypes’ and a brilliant observer of upper-class…

Famous People’s Foxes

Famous People’s Foxes

This beady, wary, big-eared creature by the eminent biographer Michael Holroyd certainly appears to be related to Vulpes vulpes in some way. One theory is that it is an early example of a particular variation of urban fox whose habitat was Bloomsbury in the…

Famous People’s Foxes

Famous People’s Foxes

As Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy has written about contemporary events and issues and refused to be tied down to the traditional Royal milestones. Her drawing is also pleasingly free and original. Here is a fox who knows all the angles, and yet, at…

Famous People’s Foxes

Famous People’s Foxes

Booker Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro gives us a splendid portrait of Wayne Brush, the disreputable younger brother of that famous and debonair glove puppet Basil. He has been sacked from a series of jobs and has started a number of…

Famous People’s Foxes

Famous People’s Foxes

First impressions can be deceptive. We took this to be a sketch of an elegant lady’s fox fur stole – a clever twist on our theme. However the explanation by the artist and author of War Horse is rather grimmer.…

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