Mel Calman

Melville (Mel) Calman (19 May 1931, Stamford Hill – 10 February 1994, London) was a British cartoonist best known for his "little man" cartoons published in British newspapers including the Daily Express (1957–63), The Sunday Telegraph (1964–65), The Observer (1965-6), The Sunday Times (1969–84) and The Times (1979–94).

Calman was the youngest of the three children of Clement Calman, a timber merchant, and his wife Anna (both Russian-Jewish immigrants who came to England about 1912).

Sent to Cambridge to avoid The Blitz in World War II, he was educated at the Perse School. Failing to gain entrance to Cambridge University, he returned to London where he enrolled at the Borough Polytechnic Art School, later studying illustration at Saint Martin's School of Art and Goldsmiths College.

After two years of National Service, in 1956 he attempted to find work as a freelance cartoonist. Punch was discouraging about his work, but in 1958 he succeeded in placing work with the "William Hickey" column in the Daily Express. Although in regular work, he left the Express after five years, seeing no prospects being in competition with Osbert Lancaster and Giles.

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