Colonel Blimp
British cartoon character by cartoonist David Low / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the cartoon character. For the Powell-Pressburger film, see The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. For other uses, see Colonel Blimp (disambiguation).
Colonel Blimp is a British cartoon character by cartoonist David Low, first drawn for Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard in April 1934.[1] Blimp is pompous, irascible, jingoistic, and stereotypically British, identifiable by his walrus moustache and the interjection "Gad, Sir!"
Low claimed that he developed the character after overhearing two military men in a Turkish bath declare that cavalry officers should be entitled to wear their spurs inside tanks.[2] The character was named after the barrage balloon, which was known as a blimp.[citation needed]