Career
McMurtry is best known for his work for the British Daily Mail newspaper. McMurtry views his role as making "dreary news copy of the daily paper brighter, by putting in a laugh". Mac was granted an Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2003 New Year"s honours list for "services to the newspaper industry".
In November 2015, Mac was accused of "spectacular racism" for his cartoon which referred to the news that singer Tom Jones would undergo tests to discover whether he had black ancestry.
Later the same month, following the Paris attacks by Jihadists, Mac produced a cartoon depicting refugees crossing the European Union"s borders with rats at their feet. The imagery evoked that used by Nazi propagandists, including in their notorious film The Eternal Jew (1940).
There were multiple calls on social media for the cartoon to be removed.
