The Press: Comic Citizen

After 49 years of political cartooning, Britain's famed David Low wanted a "try at new things and a change of air." The "new thing" turned out to be a weekly cartoon strip, which made its first appearance this week in Auckland's New Zealand Herald and other papers around the world, begins next week in Low's home paper, the London Daily Herald. The strip's title: World Citizen.

To the old cast of characters (e.g., Colonel Blimp, the trade-union workhorse, the escapist ostrich) which have helped make him the world's top political satirist, Low has added a tousle-haired, bewildered character called World Citizen....