Info request - Folk Review cartoonist Natasha

Subject: Info request - FR cartoonist Natasha
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 03:55 AM

From 1973 to 1976, I used to write the monthly 'Tailpiece' column for Fred Woods's "Folk Review" magazine. My column's picture byline was an unflattering but, it must be admitted, not inaccurate full-length drawing, which cleverly captured, in somewhat exaggerated caricature, my features and stance. I have the original, signed simply "Natasha"; whom I met, introduced by Fred at a 1970s Cambridge Folk Festival, for only the couple of minutes it took for her to walk round and study me. We never met again; she did the drawing entirely from memory. I have some recollection of Fred having said that she was a cartoonist for The Scotsman newspaper. I have failed to find any info about her online; but wonder if any Catter, who might happen to be a Scotsman-reader or a student of the cartoon genre, could tell me her full name, or might know anything else about her.

≈Michael Grosvenor Myer≈

Subject: RE: Info request - FR cartoonist Natasha
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 05:28 AM

In interests of accuracy: having looked again, I find that the signature is not "simply Natasha" as I said above, but, in full,

©Natasha 1973.

Subject: RE: Info request - FR cartoonist Natasha
From: Jack Campin
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 06:25 AM

The name rings a bell; at some point I must have seen her cartoons regularly. Style rather like that used for caricaturing celebs by Punch, the Guardian and the Telegraph.

Subject: RE: Info request - FR cartoonist Natasha
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 12 Apr 16 - 12:48 AM

Thank you, Jack. Yes, the sort of caricature used for politicians & celebs. Mainly dependent on facial features -- head exaggeratedly large in proportion to the body; tho, as I said above, my characteristic, somewhat slouching, stance is faithfully captured also: pic is in profile from left.

My Folk Review column, BTW in case may jog any memories, was entitled "Taking the Mike".

Any further bells rung?

≈M≈