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{{Short description|English artist, cartoonist, illustrator and medal designer (1920–2011)}}
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| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|CBE|RDI|size=100%}}
| image         = Ronald Searle 2011.jpg
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| caption       = Searle in 2011
| birth_name    = Ronald William Fordham Searle
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| birth_place   = [[Cambridge]], England
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| death_place   = [[Draguignan]], Var, Provence, France
| nationality   = British
| known_for     = Illustration, graphic artist, cartoons
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'''Ronald William Fordham Searle''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|RDI}} (3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011<ref name=reuters/>) was an English artist and [[satirical]] [[cartoonist]], comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of [[St Trinian's School]] and for his collaboration with [[Geoffrey Willans]] on the [[Nigel Molesworth|Molesworth]] series.<ref name="lambiek.net">{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/searle_ronald.htm|title=Ronald Searle|website= Lambiek Comiclopedia}}</ref>

==Biography==
[[File:In the Jungle - Self Portrait, Konyu, Thailand Jungle, July 1943 Art.IWMART1574776.jpg|thumb|left|''In the Jungle – Self Portrait, [[Hellfire Pass|Konyu]], Thailand Jungle, July 1943'']]

Searle was born in [[Cambridge]], England, where his father was a Post Office worker who repaired telephone lines.<ref name=telegraph/> He started drawing at the age of five and left school (Central School – now [[Parkside Community College|Parkside School]]) at the age of 15. He trained at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology (now [[Anglia Ruskin University]]) for two years.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.anglia.ac.uk/news/anglia-ruskin-exhibition-pays-tribute-to-st-trinians-originator-ronald-searle|title=Anglia Ruskin exhibition pays tribute to St Trinians originator Ronald Searle|access-date=2018-09-06|language=en}}</ref>

In April 1939, realizing that war was inevitable, he abandoned his art studies to enlist in the [[Royal Engineers]]. In January 1942, he was in the [[18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)|287th Field Company, RE]] in [[Singapore]].  After a month of fighting in [[British Malaya|Malaya]], he was taken prisoner along with his cousin Tom Fordham Searle, when Singapore [[Battle of Singapore|fell to the Japanese]]. He spent the rest of the war as prisoner, first in [[Changi Prison]] and then in the Kwai jungle, working on the Siam-Burma [[Death Railway]].  Searle contracted both [[beriberi]] and [[malaria]] during his incarceration, which included numerous beatings, and his weight dropped to less than 40 kilograms. He was liberated in late 1945 with the final defeat of the Japanese.  After the war, he served as a courtroom artist at the [[Nuremberg trials]] and later the [[Adolf Eichmann]] trial (1961).<ref name="lambiek.net"/>

He married the journalist [[Kaye Webb]] in 1947; they had twins, Kate and Johnny. In 1961, Searle moved to Paris, leaving his family; the marriage ended in divorce in 1967.<ref>{{cite news |last=Eccleshare |first=Julia |date=17 January 1996 |title=OBITUARY: Kaye Webb |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-kaye-webb-1324557.html  |newspaper= The Independent |access-date=29 January 2017  | quote=married ... thirdly 1946 Ronald Searle (one son, one daughter; marriage dissolved 1967)}}</ref> Later he married Monica Koenig, a painter, theatre and jewellery designer.<ref>[http://www.artslant.com/ny/events/show/12859-monica-searle-the-art-of-the-necklace Monica Searle: The Art of the Necklace] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715100412/https://www.artslant.com/ny/events/show/12859-monica-searle-the-art-of-the-necklace |date=15 July 2018 }}  ''Artslant – New York'' – Retrieved 5 January 2012</ref> After 1975, Searle and his wife lived and worked in the mountains of [[Alpes-de-Haute-Provence|Haute Provence]].

Searle's wife Monica died in July 2011 and he himself died on 30 December 2011, aged 91.

==Early work as war artist during captivity==
[[File:In the Jungle - Working on a Cutting. Rock Clearing after Blasting Art.IWMART1574787.jpg|alt=In the Jungle - Working on a Cutting. Rock Clearing after Blasting Art, 1943 by Ronald Searle|thumb|''In the Jungle - Working on a Cutting. Rock Clearing after Blasting'', 1943]]
Although Searle published the first [[St Trinian's School|St Trinian's]] cartoon in the magazine ''[[Lilliput (magazine)|Lilliput]]'' in 1941, his professional career really begins with his documentation of the brutal camp conditions of his period as a [[Far East prisoners of war|prisoner-of-war of the Japanese]] in [[World War II]] in a series of drawings that he hid under the mattresses of prisoners dying of [[cholera]].  Searle recalled, "I desperately wanted to put down what was happening, because I thought if by any chance there was a record, even if I died, someone might find it and know what went on."  But Searle survived, along with approximately 300 of his drawings.  Liberated late in 1945, Searle returned to England, where he published several of the drawings in fellow prisoner [[Russell Braddon]]'s ''The Naked Island''. Another of Searle's fellow prisoners later recounted, "If you can imagine something that weighs six stone or so, is on the point of death and has no qualities of the human condition that aren't revolting, calmly lying there with a pencil and a scrap of paper, drawing, you have some idea of the difference of temperament that this man had from the ordinary human being."<ref name=telegraph>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/8989894/Ronald-Searle.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Ronald Searle | date=3 January 2012}}</ref>

Most of these drawings appear in his 1986 book, ''Ronald Searle: To the Kwai and Back, War Drawings 1939–1945''.<ref>{{cite web |author =Bill Maudlin |work=The New York Times |date=10 August 1986 |title= Sketches From Life and Death – review of ''To the Kwai – And Back'' |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE5D81338F933A2575BC0A960948260 }}</ref> In the book, Searle also wrote of his experiences as a prisoner, including the day he woke up to find a dead friend on either side of him, and a live snake underneath his head:
{{quote|You can’t have that sort of experience without it directing the rest of your life.  I think that’s why I never really left my prison cell, because it gave me my measuring stick for the rest of my life... Basically all the people we loved and knew and grew up with simply became fertiliser for the nearest bamboo.}}

At least one of his drawings is on display at the Changi Museum and Chapel, Singapore, but the majority of his originals are in the permanent collection of the [[Imperial War Museum]], London, along with the works of other POW artists. The best known of these are [[John Mennie]], [[Jack Bridger Chalker]], [[Philip Meninsky]] and [[Ashley George Old]].

==Magazines, books, and films==
[[File:Sttrinians.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Modern Classics reissue of Ronald Searle's [[St Trinian's School|St Trinian's]] drawings]]
Searle produced an extraordinary volume of work during the 1950s, including drawings for ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'', ''[[Holiday (magazine)|Holiday]]'' and ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/master-of-st-trinians-the-death-of-ronald-searle-6284587.html|title=Master of St Trinian's: The death of Ronald Searle|author=John Walsh|date=4 January 2012|work=The Independent}}</ref> His cartoons appeared in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', the ''[[Sunday Express]]'' and the ''[[News Chronicle]]''. He compiled more St Trinian's books, which were based on his sister's school and other girls' schools in Cambridge. He collaborated with [[Geoffrey Willans]] on the Molesworth books (''Down With Skool!'', 1953, and ''How to be Topp'', 1954), and with [[Alex Atkinson]] on travel books. In addition to advertisements and posters, Searle drew the title backgrounds of the [[Sidney Gilliat]] and [[Frank Launder]] film ''[[The Happiest Days of Your Life (film)|The Happiest Days of Your Life]]''.<ref name=telegraph/>

After moving to Paris in 1961, he worked more on reportage for ''Life'' and ''Holiday'' and less on cartoons. He also continued to work in a broad range of media and created books (including his well-known cat books), animated films and sculpture for commemorative medals, both for the French Mint and the [[British Art Medal Society]].<ref>{{cite web | work=Sculpture |publisher= [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] |url= https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O111858/medal-antonio-pisanello-23rd-fidem-congress/ |title= Antonio Pisanello – 23rd FIDEM Congress Medal |date= 10 February 1992 | access-date=1 September 2007}}</ref><ref>[http://www.bams.org.uk/medal-detail.php?medal=11 Medals] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722024738/http://www.bams.org.uk/medal-detail.php?medal=11 |date=22 July 2011 }} created for the British Art Medal Society</ref> Searle did a considerable amount of designing for the cinema, and in 1965, he completed the opening, intermission and closing credits for the comedy film ''[[Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines]]'' as well as the 1969 film ''[[Monte Carlo or Bust!]]'' In 1975, the full-length cartoon ''[[Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done]]'' was released.  It is based on the character and songs from ''[[H.M.S. Pinafore]]''.<ref>[http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/65446/Dick_Deadeye_or_Duty_Done.html "Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done (1975)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826233552/http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/65446/Dick_Deadeye_or_Duty_Done.html |date=26 August 2009 }}, Time Out Film Guide. Retrieved 7 May 2009</ref>

==Medallist==
[[File:Medal_by_Searle_titled_"Searle_at_70"._Reverse.jpg|thumb|Medal by Searle titled ''Searle at 70''. Struck by [[Thomas Fattorini Ltd]]]]
Searle designed the 1992 delegates medal for the [[FIDEM]] XXIII Congress London. It depicted a half-length bust of the renaissance medallist [[Pisanello]] and was struck by the [[Royal Mint]]. Other notable medals were "Searle at Seventy" (1990)<ref>{{cite web |title=Medal : "Searle at Seventy"(1990) for BAMS (The British Art Medal Society) |url=https://www.bams.org.uk/product/searle-at-seventy/ |website=British Art Medal Society |publisher=BAMS |access-date=9 June 2020}}</ref> and "Kwai 50th Anniversary" (1991), both struck by [[Thomas Fattorini Ltd]], and "Charles Dickens" (1983) struck by the [[Birmingham Mint]].

==Archives==
In 2010, he gave about 2,200 of his works as permanent loans to [[Wilhelm Busch Museum]], [[Hanover]] (Germany), now renamed {{lang|de|Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst}}. Previously the summer palace of [[George I of Great Britain|George I of Hanover]], this museum also holds Searle's archives.

==Awards==
Searle received much recognition for his work, especially in America, including the [[National Cartoonists Society]]'s Advertising and Illustration Award in 1959 and 1965, the [[Reuben Award]] in 1960, their Illustration Award in 1980 and their Advertising Award in 1986 and 1987. Searle was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] in 2004.<ref name=telegraph/> In 2007, he was decorated with one of France's highest awards, the [[Légion d'honneur|Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur]], and in 2009, he received the German [[Lower Saxony Order of Merit]].

==Influence==
Without the satirical works of Searle the development of satirical and [[political cartoons]] — found across the range of daily and Sunday national newspapers — in the United Kingdom would be distinctly different, as his impact touched many developing artists of the later 20th century through into the twenty-first. Significantly, he was an important influence on the work and style of both [[Gerald Scarfe]]<ref name=salter>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/7836180/Gerald-Scarfe-political-cartoonist.html |title=Gerald Scarfe, political cartoonist |first= Jessica|last= Salter|date= 17 June 2010|work=The Telegraph |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131223092217/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/7836180/Gerald-Scarfe-political-cartoonist.html |archive-date=23 December 2013 |accessdate=7 September 2024}}</ref> and [[Ralph Steadman]] — with who there is an obvious link with the scratchy, ink splotting style they all use — along with [[Chris Riddell]], as well as inspiring and corresponding in late life with [[Martin Rowson]] to whom he gave a precious set of pens that he had bought in Paris.<ref>''[[The Happiest Days of Your Life (film)|The Happiest Days of your Life]]'' blu-ray interview extra with Martin Rowson</ref>

Across the Atlantic, Searle was an admiring friend of, and admired by, the satirical humorist [[S. J. Perelman]].  His work has had a great deal of influence, particularly on American cartoonists, including [[Edward Gorey]], [[Pat Oliphant]],<ref>{{cite book |last = Oliphant |first= Pat |author2=Katz, Harry L. |author3=Day, Sara  |year =1998 |title= Oliphant's Anthem |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e5OvrSJwPOUC&pg=PA26 |pages =26 |publisher= Andrews McMeel |isbn= 9780836258981 |access-date =14 February 2012}}</ref> [[Matt Groening]],<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/xbrLnoXdaLg Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20150716004244/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbrLnoXdaLg Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbrLnoXdaLg | title=My Wasted Life – Matt Groening documentary |via=YouTube | access-date=14 February 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[Hilary Knight (illustrator)|Hilary Knight]],<ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.nydailynews.com/1999-05-23/entertainment/18102454_1_vincente-minnelli-absolutely-essential-eloise-hooray | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707020622/http://articles.nydailynews.com/1999-05-23/entertainment/18102454_1_vincente-minnelli-absolutely-essential-eloise-hooray | url-status=dead | archive-date=7 July 2012 | location=New York | work=Daily News | first=Howard | last=Kissel | title=Plaza Sweetie Eloise, New York's Most Lovable Literary Brat, Makes A Comeback | date=23 May 1999}}</ref> and the animators of Disney's ''[[One Hundred and One Dalmatians|101 Dalmatians]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last =Amidi |first =Amid |title=Cartoon modern: style and design in fifties animation |date =17 August 2006 |publisher =Chronicle Books |isbn =9780811847315 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aih6tQDk5fYC&pg=PT160 |access-date =14 February 2012}}</ref>

He was an early influence on [[John Lennon]]'s drawing style which featured in the books ''[[In His Own Write]]'' and ''[[A Spaniard in the Works]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title =John Lennon Interview – Beatles Interview Database |url=http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1968.0606.beatles.html |access-date=14 February 2012 }}</ref> Anglia Ruskin University  has named the Ronald Searle Award for Creativity in the Arts in his honour.<ref name=":0" />

==Bibliography==

===St Trinian's===

* ''Hurrah For St Trinians'', 1948
* ''The Female Approach: The Belles of St. Trinian's and Other Cartoons'', 1950
* ''Back To The Slaughterhouse, and Other Ugly Moments'', 1951
* ''The Terror of St Trinian's, or Angela's Prince Charming'', 1952 (with Timothy Shy ([[D. B. Wyndham-Lewis]]))
* ''Souls in Torment'', 1953 (preface by [[Cecil Day-Lewis]])
* ''The St Trinian's Story'', 1959 (with Kaye Webb)
* ''St Trinian's: The Cartoons'', 2007
* ''St. Trinian's: The Entire Appalling Business'', 2008

===Molesworth===

* ''Down With Skool!: A Guide to School Life for Tiny Pupils and Their Parents'', 1953 (with [[Geoffrey Willans]])
* ''How to be Topp: A Guide to Sukcess for Tiny Pupils, Including All There is to Kno About Space'', 1954 (with Geoffrey Willans)
* ''Whizz for Atomms: A Guide to Survival in the 20th Century for Fellow Pupils, their Doting Maters, Pompous Paters and Any Others who are Interested'', 1956 (with Geoffrey Willans) Published in the U.S. as ''Molesworth's Guide to the Atommic Age''
* ''Back in the Jug Agane'', 1959 (with Geoffrey Willans)
* ''The Compleet Molesworth'', 1958 (collection) ''Molesworth'' (1999 Penguin reprint)

===Other works===
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*''Forty Drawings'' (1946)
*''White Coolie'', 1947 (with Ronald Hastain)
*''This England 1946–1949'', 1949 (edited by Audrey Hilton)
*''The Stolen Journey'', 1950 (with [[Oliver Philpot]])
*''An Irishman's Diary'', 1950 (with [[Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy|Patrick Campbell]])
*''A Short Trot with a Cultured Mind'', 1950 (with [[Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy|Patrick Campbell]])
*''Dear Life'', 1950 (with [[H. E. Bates]])
*''Paris Sketchbook'', 1950 (with [[Kaye Webb]]) (repr. 1958)
*''A Sleep of Prisoners'', 1951 (with [[Christopher Fry]])
*''Life in Thin Slices'', 1951 (with [[Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy|Patrick Campbell]])
*''The Naked Island'', 1952 (with [[Russell Braddon]])
*''It Must be True'', 1952 (with Denys Parsons)
*''London—So Help Me!'', 1952 (with Winifred Ellis)
*''[[The Diverting History of John Gilpin]]'', 1953 (text by [[William Cowper]])
*''Looking at London and People Worth Meeting'', 1953 (with Kaye Webb)
*''Six Animal Plays'', 1952 (text by Frank Carpenter)
*''The Dark is Light Enough'', 1954 (with Christopher Fry)
*''Patrick Campbells Omnibus'', 1954 (with Patrick Campbell)
*''The Journal of Edwin Carp'', 1954 (edited by [[Richard Haydn]])
*''Modern Types'', 1955 (with [[Geoffrey Gorer]])
*''The Rake's Progress'', 1955
*''Merry England, Etc'', 1956
*''Anglo-Saxon Attitudes'', 1956 (with [[Angus Wilson]])
*''The Big City or the New Mayhew '', 1958 (with [[Alex Atkinson]])
*''The Dog's Ear Book'', 1958 (with Geoffrey Willans)
*''USA for Beginners'', 1959 (with Alex Atkinson)
*''Anger of Achilles: Homer's Iliad'', 1959 (translation by [[Robert Graves]])
*''By Rocking Horse Across Russia'', 1960 (with Alex Atkinson)
*''Penguin Ronald Searle'', 1960
*''Refugees 1960: A Report in Words and Pictures'', 1960 (with Kaye Webb)
*''The Biting Eye of Andre Francois'' (1960)
*''Which Way Did He Go?'', 1961
*''A Christmas Carol'', 1961 (with [[Charles Dickens]])
*''The 13 Clocks and the Wonderful O'', 1962 (with [[James Thurber]])
*''Searle in the Sixties'', 1964
*''From Frozen North to Filthy Lucre'', 1964
*''Haven't We Met Before Somewhere?'', 1966
*''Searle's Cats'', 1967
*''The Square Egg'', 1968
*''Take One Toad'', 1968
*''This Business of Bomfog'', 1969 (with Madelaine Duke)
*''Monte Carlo Or Bust'', 1969 (with [[E. W. Hildick]])
*''Hello, where did all the people go?'', 1969
*''The Second Coming of Toulouse-Lautrec'', 1969
*''Secret Sketchbook'', 1969
*''The Great Fur Opera: Annals of the Hudson's Bay Company 1670–1970'', 1970 (with [[Kildare Dobbs]])<ref>[http://www.hbc.com/hbcheritage/collections/art/ronaldsearle/ The Great Fur Opera] illustrated for the [[Hudson's Bay Company]]</ref>
*''Scrooge'', 1970 (with Elaine Donaldson)
*''Mr. Lock of St. James's Street'', 1971 (with Frank Whitbourn)
*''The Addict'', 1971
*''More Cats'', 1975
*''Dick Dead Eye'', 1975 (after [[Gilbert and Sullivan]])
*''Paris! Paris!'', 1977 (with [[Irwin Shaw]])
*''Zodiac'', 1977
*''Ronald Searle'', 1978
*''The King of Beasts & Other Creatures'', 1980
*''The Situation is Hopeless'', 1980
*''Winning the Restaurant Game'', 1980 (with Jay Jacobs)
*''Too Many Songs by [[Tom Lehrer]] With Not Enough Drawings by Ronald Searle'', 1981
*''Ronald Searle's Big Fat Cat Book'', 1982
*''The Illustrated Winespeak'', 1983
*''Ronald Searle in Perspective'', 1983
*''Ronald Searle's Golden Oldies 1941–1961'', 1985
*''Something in the Cellar'', 1986
*''To the Kwai and Back: War Drawings 1939–1945'' (1986)
*''Ronald Searle's Non-Sexist Dictionary'', 1988
*''Ah Yes, I Remember It Well...: Paris 1961–1975'', 1988
*''Slightly Foxed But Still Desirable: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting'', 1989
*''Marquis De Sade Meets Goody Two-Shoes'', 1994
*''The Tales of Grandpa Cat'', 1994 (with [[Lee Wardlaw]])
*''The Hatless Man'', 1995 (with Sarah Kortum)
*''A French Affair : The Paris Beat, 1965–1998'', 1999 (with Mary Blume)
*''Wicked Etiquette'', 2000 (with Sarah Kortum)
*''Ronald Searle in Le Monde'', 2001
*''Railway of Hell: A Japanese POW's Account of War, Capture and Forced Labour'', 2002 (with Reginald Burton)
*''Searle's Cats'', 2005 (New and Expanded Edition, all illustrations are new)
*''The Scrapbook Drawings", 2005''
*''Cat O' Nine Tales: And Other Stories'', 2006 (with [[Jeffrey Archer]])
*''Beastly Feasts: A Mischievous Menagerie in Rhyme'', 2007 (with Robert Forbes)
*''More Scraps & Watteau Revisited'', 2008
*''Let's Have a Bite!: A Banquet of Beastly Rhymes'', 2010 (with Robert Forbes)
*''What! Already?: Searle at 90'', 2010
*''Les Très Riches Heures de Mrs Mole'', 2011
*''What Am I Still Doing Here?'', 2011 (with [[Roger Lewis (biographer)|Roger Lewis]]){{Div col end}}

==See also==
*[[Musée Tomi Ungerer/Centre international de l’illustration]]
* [[War artist]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/mar/09/ronald-searle-life-in-pictures "Ronald Searle: a life in pictures"]. [[Steve Bell (cartoonist)|Steve Bell]], ''The Guardian''. 9 March 2010.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110615063329/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article7032528.ece "Aged 90, Ronald Searle recalls the bad girls of St Trinian's"]. [[Valerie Grove]]. ''Times Online''. 20 February 2010.
*[http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/arts_entertainment/st+trinianaposs+creator+celebrates+90th+birthday/3567057 "St Trinian's creator Searle reaches 90"]. Nicholas Glass. ''Channel 4 News''. 2 March 2010.
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20050710.shtml Interview on BBC Radio 4], ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'', 10 July 2005
*[http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/1568/Last_Wordy_.html 1945 illustration] – ''[[OECD Observer]]'', No 246-247, Dec 2004 – Jan 2005 – (Retrieved 4 January 2012)
*[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/dec/02/3 Scion of a Noble Line: Interview with Ronald Searle], ''The Guardian''. December 2000.
*[http://www.spectator.co.uk/spectator/thisweek/5831823/i-went-into-the-war-as-a-student-and-came-out-as-an-artist.thtml Article by Harry Mount], ''[[The Spectator]]'', 10 March 2010
*[https://www.faz.net/s/RubEBED639C476B407798B1CE808F1F6632/Doc~ED9BB1CB3D21640A49F71E720994F4B5D~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html Der freigezeichnete Gefangene], Wilhelm Platthaus, ''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine]]'', 27 February 2010
* ''Ronald Searle in Perspective'' (1984)
* ''Ronald Searle'', intro. by Henning Bock & essay by Paul Dehaye (1978)

==External links==
{{commons category|Ronald Searle}}
*[http://www.ronaldsearle.co.uk/biblio.htm Full bibliography]
*[http://www.ju90.co.uk/ron.htm Ronald Searle & the St. Trinian's Cartoons]
*{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028151603/http://www.toonhound.com/ronaldsearle.htm |date=28 October 2007 |title=Biography; selected bibliography }}
*[http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/744086.html Ronald Searle] in ''[[Le Monde]]''
*[http://lambiek.net/artists/s/searle_ronald.htm Comiclopedia: Ronald Searle]
*{{IMDb name|0780714}}
* [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/ecbdd1b4e95247e39ff264083d283bbc Cover of the 1947 Christmas edition] of the [[Radio Times]], by Searle

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