Editing Gerald Scarfe (section)

===Early work===
After briefly working in advertising, a profession he grew to dislike intensely, Scarfe's early [[caricature]]s of public figures were published in satirical magazine ''[[Private Eye]]'' throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Beginning in 1960, he produced illustrations for ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'', ''[[The Evening Standard]]'' and ''[[The Daily Sketch]]''. ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' magazine assigned Scarfe to cover the 1964 US presidential election. He continued to work for ''The Sunday Times'' for two years, also producing several cover illustrations for ''Time'' magazine, including caricatures of The Beatles in 1967.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Souter|first1=Nick|last2=Souter|first2=Tessa|title=The Illustration Handbook: A guide to the world's greatest illustrators|year=2012|publisher=Oceana|isbn=978-1-84573-473-2|page =307}}</ref>

In the mid-1960s he took a job at the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' following a [[Dutch auction]] for his services with the ''[[Daily Express]]''. His decision to work for the ''Daily Mail'' led to his estrangement from fellow cartoonist [[Ralph Steadman]], alongside whom he had studied art at East Ham Technical College. Soon after, Steadman was commissioned to illustrate Scarfe and "produced an image that was half saint and half Superman, but with a disconnected heart".<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/artists/ralphsteadman/biography|title=Ralph Steadman|type=biography|series=British Cartoon Archive|publisher=University of Kent|access-date=7 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215123542/http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/artists/ralphsteadman/biography|archive-date=15 February 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Scarfe spent only one year working for the ''Daily Mail'', during which time he was sent to provide illustrations from the [[Vietnam War]].