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Hewison, William
Birth date
1925
Death date
2002
Biography
Hewison was invited to join the Punch Editorial Board as Deputy Art Editor in 1956. According to Hewison, he won the position over Quentin Blake due to his being Blake’s senior. He held this position under Russell Brockbank from 1956 to 1960, working part-time for the magazine as well as helping with layout and selecting each week’s cartoons and caricatures. When Brockbank left Punch in 1960, Hewison replaced him as Art Editor. He also contributed to Punch as an illustrator, cartoonist, cover artist and, from 1961, as the theatre caricaturist, a job that he inherited from Ronald Searle. After retiring from Punch in 1984, Hewison worked for various other publications, and when Punch was shut down in 1992, he began to work for The Times as their theatre caricaturist. He exhibited his cartoons at the National Theatre every five years beginning in 1980.