Editing Gerald Scarfe (section)

==Early life==
Scarfe was born in [[St John's Wood]], London.<ref>GRO Register of Births: SEP 1936 1a 774 HAMPSTEAD, Gerald A. Scarfe, mmn = Gardner</ref> As Scarfe was severely [[asthma]]tic as a child, he spent many of his early years bed-ridden,<ref name="big issue">{{cite web |url=https://www.bigissue.com/latest/cartoonist-gerald-scarfe-reveals-the-one-thing-he-couldnt-draw/ |title=Gerald Scarfe: How my childhood loneliness led to my grotesque cartoons|work=Big Issue |date= 4 October 2019|first=4 October 2019 Jane |last=Graham }}</ref> so drawing became a means of entertainment as well as a creative outlet. Scarfe speculated that the dark and grotesque images that often characterise his work are a result of his loneliness and asthma.<ref name="big issue" /> Scarfe has stated that the irreverence apparent in much of his work can be traced back to "dodgy treatments" and a reliance on what he feels were incompetent doctors.<ref>{{cite news|first=Kevin|last=Perry|title=Gerald Scarfe feature interview and profile|url=http://kevinegperry.com/2007/02/27/gerald-scarfe-interview|publisher=[[The Beaver (newspaper)|The Beaver]]|date=27 February 2007|access-date=29 September 2010|location=London, UK|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120101409/http://kevinegperry.com/2007/02/27/gerald-scarfe-interview/|archive-date=20 January 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

The cartoonist [[Ronald Searle]] was an early influence for Scarfe. At the age of 14 and now living in [[Hampstead]], North London, Scarfe decided it would be easy to cycle to [[Bayswater]] and visit Searle. He went several times but never rang the doorbell. It would be decades before he would actually meet Searle in 2005.<ref name=salter>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/7836180/Gerald-Scarfe-political-cartoonist.html |title=Gerald Scarfe, political cartoonist |first= Jessica|last= Salter|date= 17 June 2010|work=The Telegraph |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131223092217/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/7836180/Gerald-Scarfe-political-cartoonist.html |archive-date=23 December 2013 }}</ref> Scarfe attended [[Saint Martin's School of Art]] (now part of the [[University of the Arts London]]) in [[Holborn]], London.<ref name=horn>[[Maurice Horn]] (1983). [https://books.google.com/books?id=nvHVAAAAMAAJ ''The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons''], Volume 4. London: Chelsea House Publishers. {{ISBN|9780877543992}}. p. 495. Accessed August 2013.</ref> He also attended the [[London College of Communication|London College of Printing]],<ref name=horn /> and East Ham Technical College (now [[Newham College of Further Education]]).<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KKWqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT72 |title=A Whole Scene Going On: Inside the Sixties – From Private Eye to the Pop Revolution |first= Barry|last= Fantoni |date=5 September 2019 |publisher=Birlinn|isbn=9781788852401 }}</ref>