View AccountHewison, William Bill (1925 - 2002)
William Bill Hewison original cartoon artwork
Hewison's father was a sign maker and decorator, and he began to paint and draw from an early age, partially under his father’s tutelage. On leaving school, he attended South Shields Art School (1941-43), before leaving for military service. During the Second World War, he served as a gunner and wireless operator in the 1st Royal Tank Regiment in France, before finishing his service at GHQ Cairo. After being de-commissioned, he moved to London to study at the Regent Street Polytechnic from 1947 to 1949. He drew his first cartoon for Punch in 1950, becoming in 1960 its Art Editor until he resigned in 1984. He replaced Ronald Searle as the magazine's theatre caricaturist in 1961 and occassionally drew political cartoons and also acted as art critic for Punch.
