Will Hope (cartoonist)

William Francis Celestine Hope (March 1887 in Paramatta – ?) was an Australian-born political cartoonist. His work was published in the Cumberland Argus in Australia and in Truth in New Zealand in 1912.[1][2] By 1915, he had moved to the United States, where he was published in the New York Globe and The Masses.[2] He then worked in London, drawing for a number of Fleet Street newspapers and the Communist (from 1920 to 1923).[2][3] He often worked under the pseudonym 'Espoir'.[2][4]

References
  1. "A good cartoon". The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate: 4. 2 October 1909.
  2. "ATL: Unpublished Collections". tiaki.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  3. "Will Hope | New Zealand Cartoon Archive". www.cartoons.org.nz. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  4. Hyde, Samuel S. (1 December 2011). "'Please, Sir, he called me "Jimmy!"' Political Cartooning before the Law: 'Black Friday', J.H. Thomas, and the Communist Libel Trial of 1921". Contemporary British History. 25 (4): 521–550. doi:10.1080/13619462.2011.623862. ISSN 1361-9462. S2CID 143550690.


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