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Donald Fraser Gould McGill foi um artista gráfico britânico. É considerado o maior nome do estilo obsceno de cartões-postais característico de cidades costeiras do Reino Unido. Seus cartões usualmente retratavam séries de mulheres jovens e atraentes, senhoras de idade com sobrepeso, homens de meia idade bêbados, casais em lua de mel e vigários.

Pelo sua atuação inusitada, conquistou a alcunha de "rei dos cartões-postais obscenos". Seu trabalho é alvo de colecionadores e apreciado pela habilidade artística, poder de observação social e característico humor britânico. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Janeiro 1875 – 13. Outubro 1962
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Donald McGill: Frases em inglês

“Do you like Kipling?"
"I don't know, you naughty boy, I've never kippled.”

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The Guinness Book of World Records 1988 p. 203. http://www.unc.edu/~sstaff/images/kippled.jpg
Holds the record as the world's most successful postcard, with a sale of about 6,000,000.
Several earlier versions of the gag exist dating to the 19th century, according to the Quote Investigator blog. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/02/like-kipling/

“Could you exchange this lucky charm for a baby's feeding-bottle?”

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George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"

“In the past the mood of the comic postcard could enter into the central stream of literature, and jokes barely different from McGill's could casually be uttered between the murders in Shakespeare's tragedies. That is no longer possible, and a whole category of humour, integral to our literature till 1800 or thereabouts, has dwindled down to these ill-drawn postcards, leading a barely legal existence in cheap stationers' windows. The corner of the human heart that they speak for might easily manifest itself in worse forms, and I for one should be sorry to see them vanish.”

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George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill", in Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters (1984) Vol. 2, pp. 194-5.
Criticism

“Judge: "You are prevaricating, sir. Did you or did you not sleep with this woman?"
Co-respondent: "Not a wink, my lord!"”

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George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"

“I want to back the favourite, please. My sweetheart gave me a pound to do it both ways!”

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/misc/cartoon_libel08.shtml.

“Can't see my little Willy.”

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Arthur Calder-Marshall Wish You Were Here: The Art of Donald McGill (1966) p. 44.
The drawing shows a small child on a beach, hidden under the bulging stomach of his father.

“For Heaven's sake, send help! There's a man trying to get into my room and the door's locked!”

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The Independent, September 8, 2006. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1372035.ece.

“I like seeing experienced girls home."
"But I'm not experienced!"
"You're not home yet!”

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George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"

“She didn't ask me to the christening, so I'm not going to the wedding.”

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George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"

“I've been struggling for years to get a fur coat. How did you get yours?"
"I left off struggling.”

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George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"

“"'Isaiah' – what a funny name for a teddy bear!"
"Well, you see one eye's 'igher than the other."”

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Exhibited as part of the Michael Winner collection of McGill designs at the Chris Beetles Gallery, March 14 to April 8, 2006. http://www.chrisbeetles.com/pictures/artists/McGill_Donald/DMG185.htm