Thank you, David Shenton

Having fooled us for 25 years, David Shenton the cartoonist now tells us, as he hangs the closed sign on his Windows, that he is not an optometrist. Just as well that he has taken retirement and torn up his fraudulent licence to practise before the GOC had chance to unplug his autorefractor.

For a quarter of a century, he has amused and amazed the readers of Optician with his jolly and jaundiced look at the profession (for multiples, read business), as he puts it ‘from both sides of the reception desk’. Though this one time ‘optometrist’ did not know the difference between an ophthalmoscope and a torch, he certainly had the vision and imagination to focus on the everyday goings-on in a practice (shop). His was a detailed reflection of the dramas helping the public to see clearly as well as to look clever with fashion frames.