Raymond Jackson, (pen name JAK) of the London Evening Standard, was one of Britain's best-known newspaper cartoonists.

"JAK" was born Raymond Allen Jackson on 11 March 1927 in Marylebone, London. He trained as a commercial artist at Willesden School of Art after a period in the Army Education Corps where he taught painting "in the style of Jackson Pollock".

After working for an advertising agency and various magazines including Punch and Lilliput he joined the Evening Standard in 1952. Starting as a general artist and illustrator on the television page, he eventually in 1965 succeeded "Vicky" as the Standard's Political Cartoonist.