David Gwilym John

David Gwilym John (1884-1958?) was a Welsh cartoonist, best known as the creator of the cartoon character Dai Lossin.

Life

John was born to Catherine and William John at Pancross in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales in the early months of 1884. He was the cartoonist for the Football Echo, a Saturday sports paper and was noted for the character he created, Dai Lossin. British political cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth called John "a comic genius" and said his cartoon character, Dai Lossin "epitomised the deadpan ironical understatement of Vale wit".[1] D. G. John, as he was known to friends, was the father of Godfrey John.[2]

There is a plaque on the house where he lived in Rhoose, where he lived and worked for a number of years.[1][3]

References

  1. 1 2 David Gwilym John: Comic Genius Behind ʻDai Lossinʼ Llancarfan Society Newsletter, No. 164 (December 2015). Retrieved September 26, 2016
  2. ↑ Godfrey John, "Dai Lossin—Caricature and Fact" Five Seasons (1977) pp. 110-113
  3. ↑ Looking Back:1986 Wales Online (August 2, 2011). Retrieved September 26, 2016
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