Gabriel's Message
Political cartoonists are the sharpshooters of the artistic world; theirs is a skilled but risky profession. Peter Mellini draws a line on the marksman James 'Gabriel' Friell, whose career at the Daily Worker and Evening Standard spanned the crucial years of Depression, World War, Cold War and post-war recovery.
Gabriel. One of the archangels who appears in the Jewish, Christian, Muslim belief-systems. In Hebrew mythology, he is sometimes regarded as the angel of death, the prince of fire and thunder, hut more frequently as one of the Deity's chief messengers. Christians hold that Gabriel was the angel of the Annunciation... it is he who is to blow the trumpet on judgement day. The Muslims call Gabriel... the spirit of truth, and the angel who... revealed the sacred laws to Muhammad.
William Rose Benet, The Reader's Encyclopaedia, 1968
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