death_date subcat nationality cartoonist birth_date article_title name
11 march 1996 british british 1 30 august 1909 barry appleby
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barry appleby

barry appleby -lrb- august 30 , 1909 -- march 11 , 1996 -rrb- was a british cartoonist famous for creating `` the gambols '' for the `` daily express '' .
the strip premiered on march 16 , 1950 .
the script was written by his wife dobs , and was based on their own lives .
appleby 's father , e j. appleby , was in the 1940s the editor of autocar , a leading british motor magazine , and one to which appleby himself contributed his first illustration in 1931 .
later appleby also wrote for the magazine edited by his father , using the alias `` helix '' .
