calendar, with 12 cartoons from the year's collection. Most of the annuals included a foreword from an editor of the Express newspapers or a celebrity fan, including Margot Fonteyn (ballet dancer), Adam Faith (singer), Spike Milligan (comedian), Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor), Jim Clark (F1 champion), Sean Connery (actor), Frank Sinatra (singer) and Tommy Cooper (comedian and magician). The 2010 collection had an introduction about Giles, as it was the first year that Hamlyn had published the collection (all previous collections had been published by Express Newspapers). The 2011 collection returned to the tradition of having an introduction written by a celebrity fan (in that case, Lee Latchford-Evans) and the majority of the cartoons featured in the 2011 collection had never previously appeared in an annual. In June 2017, Dr Tim Benson published the first biography of Giles to be based on the cartoonist's own correspondence in his book 'Giles's War'. Benson discovered that Giles had been dishonest about his reasons for leaving Reynolds News due to the guilt he felt over joining Express Newspapers. The book also discusses how Giles misled his biographer Peter Tory over many details of his career. Influences Giles cited his influences as Bruce Bairnsfather and Graham Laidler ("Pont"), and he himself influenced the style of the newspaper cartoonists "JAK" and "Mac". Giles' cartoon 'Back to School Week' of 13 January 1953 inspired Leo Baxendale to create the 'Bash Street Kids' for The Beano comic. In April 2000, he was voted 'Britain's Favourite Cartoonist of the 20th Century'. Tributes In 1993 a bronze statue depicting Grandma looking up at the window of the studio in Ipswich, England where he used to work was unveiled by Warren Mitchell. Giles, who was by this time using a wheelchair, was present at the unveiling. He lived in Witnesham and supported Ipswich Town F.C.. Giles' grave is located in the churchyard of Tuddenham St Martin, Suffolk. Bibliography By Giles Golden Jubilee Special Edition (2002) Giles VE Day Cartoons (1995) Fifty Years At Work (1994) Fifty Years At The Express (1994) Nurse! (1975) Giles At War (1955) Children by Giles (1955) Cartoons from The Journalist (1948) About Giles Giles: a life in cartoons by Peter Tory (1992) The Giles Family by Peter Tory (1993) Giles At War by Peter Tory (1994) The Ultimate Giles by Peter Tory (1995) Grandma by Robert Beaumont (1999) Giles's London by John Field (2007) Giles's Fighting