Beard Liberation Front
28th April
Campaigners pay tribute to the Beard Power of Steve Bell’s Guardian ‘If’ cartoon strip
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has paid tribute to the Beard Power of Steve Bell’s Guardian ‘If’ cartoon strip for being consistently on the side of the hirsute over 40 years.
The last strip in the Guardian will appear on 29th April
Bell drew one of the great hirsute cartoon figures Monsieur L’Artiste but he also vigorously attacked the clean shaven revisionism of New Labour, for example in his January 2010 strip ‘Man with a beard’.
He drew the original logo for the Beard Liberation Front as far back as the mid-1990s.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, Steve Bell has been of the great ‘nearly’ people of numerous Beard Award votes over the years but when it comes to If he has been an outstanding ambassador for the power of beards
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