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(8) Page 20 - My informant
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DescriptionSome Mine-Sweeping Implements' by Dudley Buxton. This cartoon shows several different types of brush and a carpet-sweeper bound together. The caption reads 'SOME MINE-SWEEPING IMPLEMENTS SPECIALLY DRAWN FOR 'SEA-PIE' FROM SPECIAL INFORMATION GIVEN TO OUR ARTIST'. Incorporated into the 'frame' round the main picture there is also a cartoon of a winking sailor, captioned 'My Informant'. The incorporated sketch of 'The Informant' suggests that this cartoon might have been one of an 'Informant' series of cartoons. The cartoon appears to poke fun at newspapers or magazines that published 'exclusive' diagrams and guides to military technology. The implication is that the 'Informant' and the artist are completely ignorant of weaponry and believe that mine-sweeping would involve brooms rather than boats.
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Sea-Pie
Description'Sea-Pie' magazine was founded to raise funds for authorised naval charities. The first issue appeared on 23 June 1917, priced one shilling. The magazine typically contained short stories, poems, cartoons, and paintings and drawings, often on a nautical theme.
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Blighty and Sea Pie
DescriptionEditions of 'Blighty' (1917, 1918) and 'Sea Pie' (1917-1919), First World War magazines with pictures, stories, poems and humour. 'Blighty' was sent free to the men at the front and in the fleet. Profits from sales of 'Sea Pie' went to help sailors and their families.