"They're doing a Bobby Fischer - take away the telly and they might come out!!'

Boris Spassky Chess Iceland Bobby Fischer Cricket Australia Ashes original cartoon artwork

(3 July 1972: Bobby Fischer accepted £50,000 offered by Mr Jim Slater, chairman of Slater Walker Securities in an effort to save the world chess championship. Fischer was given two days grace after he failed to turn up for the start of the tournament. Fischer had refused to play because he felt Iceland, hosts of the championships, were not treating the match or his countrymen with the dignity it and they deserved.)

Size 36cm x 18cm

Medium Pen and ink, half-tone tint on artboard

Publication The News of the World

Published 16 July 1972