Colonel Blimp

The cartoonist David Low first drew Colonel Blimp for Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard in the 1930s: pompous, irascible, jingoistic and stereotypically English. "Gad, Sir", Blimp would proclaim, wrapped in his towel and brandishing some mundane weapon to emphasise his passion and complacency on some issue of current affairs.

See also:

• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp