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Ronald Searle takes us back to the world of the Gothic Public School in The Terror of St Trinian's . In this gloriously anarchic academy for young ladies we witness shootings, knifings, torture and witchcraft, as well as many maidenly arts. The subject of many evergreen films, St Trinian's isā¦
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The appalling schoolgirls that attend Ronald Searleās fictional girlsā boarding schoolĀ drink copious amounts of alcohol, smoke, and regularly set the school on fire. In Searleās cartoons horror and humor are tightly wound. But donāt let the girlsā boarding school gym slips, high black socks, boater hats, and hair bows fool you. These young ladies grin at violence and delight in rule breaking.
Searle drew the second and third St. Trinianās cartoon while he was a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II. Remarkably, Searle kept a visual record of his time in captivity, including self-portraits, four hundred secretā¦
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