In 1933 Joss arrived in England, along with many other important figures of the time including fellow Jew, Albert Einstein.
In 1934 Joss secured himself a job as a cartoonist and current affairs caricaturist for The Star, one of London's three evening newspapers.
He was also sent to cover European political meetings and conferences, particularly in Geneva, and his pen portraits of key players regularly landed on the front page.
[2] On his return from active service, Joss of the Star resumed once more, and an additional Saturday strip of five cartoons entitled 'Round Up' also appeared which was a comical comment on the news of the week.
The Star continued to send him to Geneva, Paris and elsewhere to record the figures at the top-flight political meetings of the day.
Joss also mixed with many other artists in different circles, beyond that of the newspaper, and he enjoyed long friendships with Oscar Kokoschka and the cartoonist Vicky (Victor Weisz).
Travel was a constant in Joss's life and he enjoyed all modes of transport – jets, cargo ships, trains, ponies and often on foot.
In the 1950s, he travelled to India, sketching political figures[7] as well as common people, and on his return exhibited his work at the Leger Galleries (where he had previously shown with the cartoonist Ronald Searle) as well as regularly filing reports for ArtReview magazine, then titled Art News and Review.
[8] When in India, Joss also met Abu Abrahim, who later came to London to work for The Observer and The Guardian for several years as a cartoonist.
Joss died in 1967, aged 58, falling from one of the highest floors of the Hilton Hotel in Hong Kong, then the site of the Foreign Correspondents Club.