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1	Ronald "Carl" Giles, best known by his last name only, was a British cartoonist best known for his long running eponymous strip in the [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers Daily Express]]. He started working in 1937 for the ''Reynolds News'', but moved to the ''Daily Express'' in 1943 and remained there until 1991.
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3	The format of ''Giles'', the strip, was a single panel, illustrated with astonishing amounts of detail. In addition to the main joke, there were often numerous sight gags in the elaborate backgrounds. The strips were usually topical, relating to current news stories. The cartoonist's most famous creation was the Giles Family, a large family presided over by a tyrannical matriarch known simply as Grandma.
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5	A comprehensive look at Giles' work can be found [[http://www.gilescartoons.co.uk/ here]].
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7	!!The strip Giles includes examples of:
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9	* AuthorAvatar: According to Giles, Larry the kid with mop-like hair is based on himself.
10	* CelebrityEndorsement: Every annual collection started with an introduction by some famous (and sometimes important) guest celebrity.
11	* CoolOldLady: Grandma.
12	* DinnerOrderFlub: When the family is in France, every attempt by would-be intellectual Henry to order steak and chips in French ends up with the family being served frogs legs.
13	* EvilerThanThou: A memorable WartimeCartoon features UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler complaining about UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan's war crimes thusly:
14	-->"These damn Japs are showing us all up! We shall have to think up some new ones."
15	* LaughablyEvil: His goofy cartoon caricatures of various Axis leaders, save UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler, whom Giles considered the worst of the bunch and strove to portray as the nasty little freak he was.
16	* NeverMessWithGranny: Grandma is all powerful and certainly very scary.
17	* PrintLongRunners: The first ''Giles'' cartoons were about the Second World War. Among his last was one about the First Gulf War.
18	* {{Seppuku}}: Another memorable WartimeCartoon shows a pair of Japanese men, one carrying a sword (which appears to be a scimitar rather than a samurai sword, which is strange given how meticulously accurate his illustrations usually were) fleeing an allied air raid and complaining: "Don't give you much time to commit suicide these days, do they?"
19	* SternTeacher: Chalkie is somewhere between this and EvilTeacher.
20	* ThoseWackyNazis: Although the tone changed once the Allies began to liberate the concentration camps, Neo-Nazis and other British fascists were usually treated with contempt after the war.
21	* WartimeCartoon: Early ''Giles'' cartoons were usually about the Second World War.

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