Original finished coloured comic drawing, showing a large penguin [Jan Tschichold?] dragging a bearded man [Montague Shaw?] who clutches a set of letters spelling 'Fabers', signifying the man's move from the publishers Faber & Faber to Penguin Books.
Dimensions 29 x 12 cm. Pasteboard mount, 31 x 14.5 cm. In blue, black and white. In good condition on lightly-aged paper. In front of a background of ricketty railings, a jolly bespectacled penguin [with Tschichold's sprightly eyes], with a Penguin book under his left arm, and preceded by a letter P and followed by an n, drags a bespectacled, bearded man (looking a little like a young Michael Bentine) towards the right of the drawing. The man has a large copyright symbol beneath his right armpit, and his flailing left hand holds an F, with the other letters making up 'Fabers' trailing after it towards the bottom right-hand of the drawing. At the head of the drawing, between the Penguin and the man, in large white letters, is 'mcmlxvi' [1966]. Attractive and suitable for framing and reproduction. From the papers of Montague Shaw.