The adventures of Angus Og appeared in the Daily Record and Sunday Mail Newspapers from 1960 – 1989. The topical satirical cartoons were often inspired and influenced by contemporary affairs.
Spanning almost 30 years the Angus Og cartoons offer a snapshot of key local, national and international news stories from the second half of the 20th century.
The stories reflect contemporary popular opinion about these events and often frame world affairs from an island perspective.
Ewen Bain saved clippings of news stories and images of politicians and celebrities in the pages of his working notebooks, the ‘Og Logs’ allowing us to see his original sources of inspiration for many of the adventures.
Ewen Bain frequently used a cartoon newspaper to make a point or provide the punchline of a joke. Sometimes the news was reported in a generic ‘News’ paper but often it was printed in the ‘Utter Hebridean Gazette’, a publication that Angus himself briefly wrote for.
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