Just before Christmas, historian Lady Antonia Fraser composed a verse on confronting that age-old companion to faith – doubt – at Farm Street Church, Mayfair.
Nick Downes is one of the most treasured cartoonists at Oldie Towers (see above right for an example).
The American cartoonist has been contributing to these pages ever since The Oldie was founded in 1992.
Also prominent in the New Yorker, he is the cartooning heir to the great Charles Addams (1912-1988) – as in The Addams Family – in the gifted way he reveals the dark underbelly beneath everyday American life.
Nick has published a new book, Polly Wants a. Perfect for anyone with a macabre taste for the blackest humour.
