The Proud and Fearless Lion

Working drawing, 'The Lion Who Caught a Cold' for The Proud and Fearless Lion, c. 1985, RAC/3. ©Reg Cartwright.
Mr Potter’s Pigeon was followed in 1983 by Norah’s Ark, a collaboration between Reg and Ann, and then in 1986 by The Proud and Fearless Lion, two working drawings from which are reproduced here.

'Every morning at the same time he would go into the jungle and roar' from: Ann and Reg Cartwright, The Proud and Fearless Lion, (Hutchinson, 1986), p. 2, SCM 13343. ©Reg Cartwright.
'The Proud and Fearless Lion by Ann and Reg Cartwright has stylised, brightly coloured, slightly ‘primitive’ pictures, which in fact are highly sophisticated.'*
*Catholic Herald, (12 December 1986), RAC/11