Nevile Lodge  Nevile Sidney Lodge (19 May 1918 – 7 March 1989) was a New Zealand cartoonist. He was cartoonist for Wellington's "Evening Post" for over 40 years, as well as the "New Zealand Truth", the "Listener", and the "New Zealand Free Lance". Nevile Lodge was born in Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand on 19 May 1918. He was educated at Rongotai College and Wellington College of Technical Art, working as an assistant window-dresser before the Second World War. During the war he served with the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force and was captured by the Italians at El Alamein in July 1942 and interned in a POW camp in Italy. In 1943 he escaped at the Italian Armistice but was captured by a German patrol and taken to a German prison camp, where he remained a prisoner until the end of the war. Lodge began cartooning before the war but while serving in the Middle East he contributed cartoons to army publications. When he became a prison of war he drew cartoons of guards, and amused his fellow prisoners. His friend Roy Johnston recalled that he and Lodge were hungry and sold cartoons for two eggs – one for Lodge and one for Johnston. He continued to draw cartoons in the German prison camp, decorating the camp walls with them once they had been passed by the camp censor. He joked that he had "studied on the Continent for three years". After the war he became a free-lance cartoonist, illustrator and commercial artist working from an office above the vegetable markets in Blair St, Wellington. He became cartoonist for the "Evening Post" in 1946, as well as drawing sporting cartoons for Saturday's "Sports Post". In 1955 he was hospitalised but continued to cartoon from his hospital bed. In 1956, when Neville Colvin left the "Evening Post" for London, he became the newspaper's editorial cartoonist, continuing to do free-lance work until 1965 when he began working full time for the "Evening Post." In 1970 he visited South Africa and wrote an article, with cartoons, on his impressions of the country. Although Lodge formally retired as resident cartoonist from the "Evening Post" in 1985, he continued to produce cartoons, drawing his last one for the paper in November 1988. While Lodge was known for the gentleness of his cartoons, he was an astute observer of politics and society. He saw through politicians rhetoric but on the other hand he depicted readily recognisable scenes of New Zealand life.