Sprod, George, 1919-2003

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George Napier Sprod (16 September 1919 - April 2003) was an Australian cartoonist, for many years active in England, who signed his work "Sprod". He was one of the many captured by the Japanese in the fall of Malaya and spent the years as a Prisoner of War conscripted to work on the Thai-Burma Railway and in Changi Prison, where he developed his artistic talents. A fellow prisoner was the British cartoonist Ronald Searle; they, and others, contributed to a fortnightly camp magazine The Exile. After the war he returned to Sydney, and sold illustrated articles on his experiences to the Australian press, and then worked for the Australian Women's Weekly. In 1949 he left for London, where he had work published by various magazines including the News Chronicle, but most importantly for Punch, and over the next twenty years was one of that magazine's most published artists. He left London around 1969 and returned to Sydney, settling in Sydney's Kings Cross, which at the time had a thriving community of artists. Link to catalogue record.

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