Sink or Swim

Ryan was a superb draughtsman, of course, but his work about the church was utterly persuasive because he lived and breathed his subject. … [He] found much to tease about clergy and laity alike, but his cartoons were neither polemical nor biting; they did their work by being kind, funny and poignant. … Sink or Swim presents a selection of Ryan’s work on a range of issues, carefully chosen and set in their proper historical context. It is simultaneously endearing and intellectually rigorous, with much to amuse and to inform.