3-072-580 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

'About this time there occurred a strange incident...', 1950. Preliminary drawing. In 1950 the Foreign Office commissioned a strip cartoon version of Animal Farm from the cartoonist Norman Pett and his writing partner Donald Freeman. Various embassies then encouraged overseas newspapers to publish the anti-communist strip. It was translated into a number of languages and also turned into a slide show for public performance.