Arthur Stuart Michael Cummings

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Arthur Stuart Michael Cummings (1st June, 1919, in Leeds - 9 October 1997, in London), was a famous British cartoonist. His mother was an artist, his father the political editor of the Liberal News Chronicle.

Cummings was educated at The Hall, Hampstead, London, Gresham's School, in Norfolk, and the Chelsea School of Art, in London.

Cummings saw himself as "a rude little boy speaking out at the awkward moment", but to many of his critics he was a bigoted racist and reactionary. Amongst his fellow cartoonists, Vicky in particular hated Cummings, claiming - according to the journalist James Cameron - that "he was the only man entitled to draw with a Post Office nib": "He also despised his political attitudes and said he was a time-server." In 1983 Michael Cummings was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire.