Melody Maker jazz cartoonist

[Hugh Weldon]

Can someone put me out of my misery and remind me of the name of the chap who used to do the cartoons on the Melody Maker jazz pages - Mal someone-or-other?

They were usually clever and often quite witty - I recall one accompanying a review of an Evan Parker - Paul Lytton duo free jazz/noise group LP with Parker playing a drainpipe. I used to cut them out and keep them for a while but of course they've long disappeared.

In an idle moment the other day I felt like doing a search to see if there were any on the net - but couldn't remember the guy's name. He's dead now I think, the last thing I remember reading about him was his obituary, some years ago.

[Alan Balfour]

Mal Dean, maybe?

A very amusing guy who I once met propping up the bar of the 100 Club!

[Hugh Weldon]

Yep Alan, pretty sure you're right there, many thanks.

If I can find any examples of his stuff I'll post them here.

[john poole]

He provided the artwork for Pete Brown's LP sleeves I think.

[Alan Balfour]

Mal also did work for International Times and I think the event at the 100 was some kind of fund raiser for them. Another attendee was a mutual friend of Charlie and I, Wynford Hicks. Wynford was having an intense conversation with the guy next to Mal Dean and later I jokingly asked Wynford who he had been giving ear ache to he replied,“Ralph Steadmanâ€

[NormanD]

One to look out for:

Not available via www.abebooks.co.uk. One on amazon, the usual silly price.

And another:

[Hugh Weldon]

Now that you've reminded me of his name, I've done a bit of searching but the only example of an MM cartoon I could come up with this one.

Couldn't separate it from the one on the right unfortunately which is clearly not a jazz cartoon and is probably Clint Eastwood (?).

It's fairly obviously Sidney Bechet on the left, but I'm not sure what he's got on the end of his baguette!

[Hugh Weldon]

Looking at it again it appears a Frenchman has hung up his beret there.

Typical daft/surreal Mal Dean idea.