Raymond Jackson, best known by his pen-name JAK (11 March 1927 in Marylebone – 27 July 1997 in Wimbledon) was one of Britain's best-known newspaper cartoonists, working for the London Evening Standard from 1952 onwards.
[1] He trained as a commercial artist at Willesden School of Art after a period in the Army Education Corps where he taught painting "in the style of Jackson Pollock".
[1] After working for an advertising agency and various magazines including Punch and Lilliput he joined the Evening Standard in 1952.
[1] Starting as a general artist and illustrator on the television page, he eventually in 1965 succeeded "Vicky" as the Standard 's Political Cartoonist.
[1] His figures were distinguished by having three fingers on their hands and he signed his name, in capitals with characteristic "blob" serifs, in the bottom right or left corner.