Mystery solved: Mac - Stan McMurtry - with his wife Liz, who appears in his cartoons She can be hidden in the ripples of a puddle, floating in the clouds or enmeshed in a hedge. She is seldom easy to find. The lady is Mac's third wife Liz.
'Mac does wicked things - he once made me the face of a naked lady in a tattoo on a sailor's arm,' laughs Liz, who lives with Mac in Battersea, South West London. The first time Mac put an unknown woman into his cartoon was while he was courting his second wife, Janet, in 1980. He had been the Mail's cartoonist for nine years. 'Do you want any duty-frees? 'I put her among a flock of sheep once and her long hair blended perfectly with their woolly coats.'
Then, in 1998, they broke up and there was no lady featured for five years. But five years ago, just before he married writer and former PR executive Liz Vaughan, the lady returned.
'I had to change the figure because Liz has short hair and a different nose and chin,' says Mac. But word of Mac's secret lady - who he never includes when his cartoon depicts a tragedy or makes a serious political comment - has been spreading in recent times. 'I don't know how they got out, Prime Minister.
But they have and they've got a petition.' 'I even got a call from a lady in a pub recently saying they couldn't find her and would I help,' says Mac. 'I told them to turn the cartoon upside down. They found her in the hedge.' Mac, whose father was a commercial traveller, was born in Edinburgh in 1936, and moved to Birmingham at the age of eight.
He went to Birmingham College of Art and then did National Service with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps before becoming a film animator. His move to newspapers came in 1968 when the Daily Sketch's Norman Mansbridge retired. Mac had already been submitting joke cartoons in his own name, and the paper's editor, David English, had spotted his potential. Now he had to produce a topical cartoon every day.
And for the first time he signed them Mac. 'In view of current investigations I'm afraid I can no longer keep you on as my parliamentary assistant, mother.' When the Daily Sketch was absorbed by the Daily Mail in 1971, and English became its editor, he took Mac with him. One cartoon showed the then Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson telling the BBC that 'Britain is right to be proud under Labour', with a nearby man holding a newspaper placard proclaiming the Biafran tragedy. 'I felt sorry for Wilson, but the cartoon had to be drawn,' says Mac.
But Wilson bore no grudge. 'Your cartoons make me and the wife laugh,' he told Mac. I come down here most mornings to feed the estate agents.'
There was a row in 1984 when the Army engaged a famous culinary figure to advise about its food and Mac drew three hugely overweight Army chefs lopping food out of great, steaming pots. Didn't he know, raged Army Catering Corps brass, that members of the RACC, like other soldiers, had to be fit?
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'But that's how I remember the cooks from my service,' explained Mac. The Army persisted - perhaps he would like to join their cooks on their exercises and assault course.
Mac agreed, not knowing that he had a serious heart condition. Days later, he was taken into hospital for multiple heart bypass surgery. Mac has his own favourites. One was when Hillary Clinton was rumoured to have had a face lift, and depicted an undressed President in his bedroom, making a move towards a female companion. The caption read: 'What do you mean, not a word to Hillary? I AM Hillary.'
'Attention, attention! The Government database cannot fight terror if you mumble. Please speak slowly and distinctly. ' Mac's originals adorn the walls of some of those who have been targeted by his pen. Margaret Thatcher has several, as does Princess Anne.
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When Mac received his MBE in 2004, the Queen, who often figures in the cartoons with Prince Philip, said: 'Ah, so you're Mac, are you?' 'I hope you're not offended by them,' Mac replied.
'No, no,' said the Queen. 'We always look at them. We like it when you put the corgis in.' Says Mac: 'My philosophy is simple: I'm not just making a social or political comment, I'm also making people laugh.' Red-haired Liz, meanwhile, continues to find her way into Mac's cartoons. 'Great news, Gordon. They're looking for someone who's cheap and reasonable at sums to replace Carol Vorderman on Countdown.'
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