Although not entirely forgotten, Michael ffolkes (he purposely chose the initial lower-case f) will always, it seems, have the epitaph that reads, ‘Martin Honeysett threw a cake over his head.’
This story stems from a Private Eye 21st-birthday bash, where before it got a chance to be dished out on paper plates with accompanying napkins, fellow cartoonist Honeysett threw the large and elaborately baked cake over ffolkes’s head.
For ffolkes (1925-88), one of Britain’s greatest cartoonists and illustrators, that seems to