` ` The world 's greatest political cartoonist , '' Mike Smith , began career in German concentration camp . The 91-year - old says the secret to cartoons is ` ` something goes wrong '' Forced to give up , after gradually going blind . It 's a genre that Peyton has dominated for 70 years , amassing followers across the world with his trademark , roughly scribbled drawings of rain-sodden sailors naively headed for impending doom . New retrospective book , ` ` The world of Peyton , '' Will be last .
` ` The world 's greatest political cartoonist , '' Mike Smith , began career in German concentration camp . The 91-year - old says the secret to cartoons is ` ` something goes wrong '' Forced to give up , after gradually going blind . New retrospective book , ` ` The world of Peyton , '' Will be last .