Famous Cartoonists from the United Kingdom
Al Ewing
Age: 47Al Ewing () is a British comics writer who has mainly worked in the small press and for 2000 AD and Marvel Comics.- Alan Davis (born 18 June 1956) is an English writer and artist of comic books, known for his work on titles such as Captain Britain, The Uncanny X-Men, ClanDestine, Excalibur, JLA: The Nail and JLA: Another Nail.
- Birthplace: United Kingdom
Alan Leslie Fennell (10 December 1936 – 10 December 2001) was a British writer and editor best known for work on series produced by Gerry Anderson, and for having created the magazines TV Century 21 and Look-in. Fennell wrote episodes of Fireball XL5 and Stingray and more than ten episodes of Thunderbirds including "30 Minutes After Noon". He also wrote for many comic strip adaptations and was the first editor of TV Century 21. Between himself and Dennis Spooner they wrote 36 episodes of Stingray. He also wrote a number of books, including a novelisation of the film Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World (1973) and two original novels based on the TV series Freewheelers published in 1972 by Piccolo/TV Times, entitled Freewheelers - Sign Of The Beaver and Freewheelers - The Spy Game.- Birthplace: England
Alan McKenzie
Alan McKenzie is a British comics writer known for his work at 2000 AD.- The writer behind The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta and Watchmen, self-proclaimed anarchist and occultist Alan Moore revolutionised the comic book medium with socially and politically-conscious works which attracted an ever-growing adult audience. Born in Northampton in 1953, Moore developed an obsession with comic books and anti-establishment sentiments from a young age, becoming involved with a local alternative arts group and getting expelled from high school for dealing LSD in his teens. Following various dead end jobs Moore decided to pursue a career as a comic book writer, and soon forged a fruitful working relationship with 2000 AD, contributing over 50 stories to the publication's Future Shocks and Time Twisters sci-fi series, a permanent extra-terrestrial strip, Skizz, and the short-lived but much-loved The Ballad of Halo Jones. During this period Moore also wrote for Marvel UK's Captain Britain and Warrior, a new monthly magazine where he revived Miracleman and debuted V for Vendetta, a dystopian thriller based in a neo-fascist future which, like many of Moore's works, was later adapted for the big screen much to his dismay. Concerned with the lack of creator's rights, Moore soon stopped working for homegrown publications and instead focused his efforts on becoming the first British comic book writer to crack America. In 1983 DC Comics hired Moore to breathe new life into poor-selling The Saga of the Swamp Thing, and was subsequently given the chance to write stories for Vigilante, Superman and Batman, including popular graphic novel The Killing Joke. But his crowning glory arrived in 1986 with Watchmen, a superhero Cold War-based limited series which allowed Moore to experiment with narrative, further explore adult themes and essentially pave the way for a generation of darker comic book writers. As he did in his homeland Moore then became disillusioned by the issue of creator's rights and in 1989 vowed to abandon the mainstream altogether, setting up an independent company, Mad Love, with wife Phyllis and mutual lover Deborah Delano. There, Moore gravitated towards stories of ordinary citizens and socio-political issues, including anti-homophobia anthology AARGH and an unfinished miniseries based on his hometown, Big Numbers. After both his company and marriage folded, Moore produced the work A Small Killing, for Victor Gollancz Ltd. and worked with comics anthology Taboo on fictionalized Jack the Ripper account From Hell and erotic adventure Lost Girls. Moore surprised fans in 1993 by returning to the mainstream via the predominantly flashy Image Comics, writing stories for Spawn and Supreme, creating miniseries 1963 and taking control of monthly comic WildC.A.T.S. Moore was then given his own imprint, America's Best Comics, in 1999 where he created Victorian England dream team The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, post-modern superhero Tom Strong and police procedural Top 10. After yet more business disputes, Moore went independent again in 2009, launching the '21st Century's first underground magazine,' Dodgem Logic, limited series Neonomicon and digital comics app Electricomics. In 2016 Moore announced he was retiring from the comic book industry to focus on filmmaking.
- Birthplace: Northampton, England, UK
- Alexander "Alex" Williams (born 18 October 1967 in London) is an English film animator and cartoonist. He is the son of animator Richard Williams. He has worked on many animated films, and is the author of the Queens Counsel cartoon strip in The Times, for which he was awarded the Cartoon Art Trust Award for Strip Cartooning in October 2017.
- Birthplace: England, London
Andi Watson
Age: 56Andrew "Andi" Watson (born 1969) is a British cartoonist and illustrator best known for the graphic novels Breakfast After Noon, Slow News Day and his series Skeleton Key and Love Fights, published by Oni Press and Slave Labor Graphics. Watson has also worked for more mainstream American comic publishers including DC Comics, a twelve-issue limited series at Marvel Comics, several series for Dark Horse Comics, and Image Comics. He is currently writing and drawing children's books, notably the "Gum Girl" series.- Birthplace: Wakefield, United Kingdom
- Andrew Cartmel (born 1958) is a British author and journalist. He was the script editor of Doctor Who during the Sylvester McCoy era of the show between 1987 and 1989. He has also worked as a script editor on other television series, as a magazine editor, as a comics writer, as a film studies lecturer, and as a novelist.
Andy Diggle
Andy Diggle is a British comic book writer and former editor of 2000 AD. He is best known for his work on The Losers, Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, Adam Strange and Silent Dragon at DC Comics and for his run on Thunderbolts and Daredevil after his move to Marvel. In 2013 Diggle left writing DC's Action Comics and began working with Dynamite Entertainment, writing a paranormal crime series Uncanny. He is also working on another crime series with his wife titled Control that is set to begin publishing in 2014.- Birthplace: London, United Kingdom
Andy Lanning
Andy Lanning (born 21 November 1963) is a British comic book writer and inker, known for his work for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, and for his collaboration with Dan Abnett.Andy Riley
Age: 54Andy Riley (born 1970) is a British author, cartoonist, and Emmy-winning screenwriter for TV and film. Riley has written and drawn many best-selling cartoon books, including The Book of Bunny Suicides (2003) and its sequels, and Great Lies To Tell Small Kids (2005). From 2002 until February 2010 he drew a weekly comic strip called Roasted in The Observer Magazine, a collection of which was released in book form in 2007. Riley also publishes the King Flashypants series of children's books. With Kevin Cecil, his friend since they attended Aylesbury Grammar School, he created and wrote the sitcoms Year of the Rabbit for Channel 4 and IFC, The Great Outdoors for BBC Four, Hyperdrive for BBC Two and Slacker Cats for the ABC Family Channel. Their other television work includes Veep (for which they each won an Emmy in 2015 in the Outstanding Comedy Series category), Black Books, the Comic Relief one-off special Robbie the Reindeer, for which he and Cecil won a BAFTA in 2000, Little Britain, Tracey Ullman's Show, Trigger Happy TV, So Graham Norton, Smack the Pony, The Armando Iannucci Shows, Harry and Paul, Big Bad World, Come Fly With Me, and Spitting Image. The Radio Four panel game they wrote with Jon Holmes and Tony Roche, The 99p Challenge, ran for five series from 2000.They wrote for the Miramax animated feature Gnomeo and Juliet, and its forthcoming sequel Gnomeo and Juliet: Sherlock Gnomes. Riley has co-written two TV adaptations of David Walliams books: Gangsta Granny and The Boy In The Dress. Riley was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He is namechecked in the Father Ted Christmas Special as 'Father Andy Riley'.- Birthplace: England
Angus Allan
Dec. at 70 (1936-2007)Angus Peter Allan (22 July 1936 – 16 July 2007) was a British comic strip writer and magazine editor who worked on TV Century 21 in the 1960s and Look-in magazine during the 1970s. Most commonly known as Angus Allan and sometimes credited as Angus P. Allan, he was responsible for original comic strip adaptations of numerous popular TV series. Allan's output was prolific, and virtually all the Look-In comic strips were his creations. Some of his comic works included The Six Million Dollar Man, Logan's Run and Charlie's Angels. Allan collaborated with many well-known British comic strip artists, including Jim Baikie and Arthur Ranson.- Birthplace: Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom
Michael Cummings
Dec. at 78 (1919-1997)Arthur Stuart Michael Cummings OBE (born Leeds, Yorkshire, 1 June 1919, died London, 9 October 1997) was a British newspaper cartoonist. He was known as Michael Cummings and signed his work simply Cummings.- Birthplace: Leeds, United Kingdom
Arthur Wyatt
Arthur Wyatt is a writer for British comic 2000 AD, creating stories mostly in the Future Shock format and in the Judge Dredd universe. Wyatt was also selected as one of 2005's five best new comic book writers, contributing to the 2000AD Winter Special. Wyatt is also the founder of small press title FutureQuake. He edited and wrote large parts of the first three issues and continues to contribute scripts.- Asia Alfasi (born 20 April 1984) is a Libyan-British manga-influenced comic writer and artist. She was born in Libya and moved to Scotland at the age of 7. She currently lives in Birmingham, England. Her works synthesise Islamic, Libyan, British, and Japanese influences. She first gained notoriety when she was the first female to participate in and win the Hi8us Midlands Stripsearch competition with a portfolio based on her character Monir.
- Birthplace: Libya
- Barry Windsor-Smith (born Barry Smith, 25 May 1949) is a British comic book illustrator and painter whose best known work has been produced in the United States. He is known for his work on Marvel Comics' Conan the Barbarian from 1970 to 1973, and for his work on Wolverine – particularly the original Weapon X story arc.
- Birthplace: England
Ben Hunt
Bill Tidy
Age: 91William Edward "Bill" Tidy, MBE (born 9 October 1933), is a British cartoonist, writer and television personality, known chiefly for his comic strips. Tidy was appointed MBE in 2000 for "Services to Journalism". He is noted for his charitable work, particularly for the Lord's Taverners, which he has supported for over 30 years. Deeply proud of his working-class roots in the North of England, his most abiding cartoon strips, such as the Cloggies and the Fosdyke Saga, have been set in an exaggerated version of that environment. He now lives in Boylestone, Derbyshire.- Birthplace: United Kingdom
Bob Wilson
Age: 84Bob Wilson (born 29 October 1942) is a cartoonist, artist and author of children's books. He is probably best known for the Stanley Bagshaw series of children's books. He is also responsible for the Pump Street Primary series of books and the Joshua Jones TV cartoon series.Russell Brockbank
Dec. at 66 (1913-1979)Russell Brockbank (1913-1979) was a cartoonist born in Niagara Falls, Ontario. He moved to England in 1929. Brockbank was best known for his motoring, motor racing and aviation cartoons. His work was published in numerous magazines and journals, including Lilliput, Motor and Punch. During World War II his cartoon technique was used to more serious effect to help with the subject of aircraft recognition being published in the British training journal Aircraft Recognition.His association with Punch lasted over 30 years, and he was Art Editor from 1949 to 1960. Brockbank's cartoons were characterised by a high degree of draughtsmanship and he often went to great lengths to ensure that the cars and aircraft in his cartoons were as true-to-life as possible. The Russell Brockbank Partnership, set up by his family to commemorate his life and works, have published a website RussellBrockbank.com to showcase some of his most memorable work, and to allow devotees to purchase prints and originals of his work.- Birthplace: Canada
- Captain Charles Bruce Bairnsfather (9 July 1887 – 29 September 1959) was a prominent British humorist and cartoonist. His best-known cartoon character is Old Bill. Bill and his pals Bert and Alf featured in Bairnsfather's weekly "Fragments from France" cartoons published weekly in "The Bystander" magazine during the First World War.
- Birthplace: Murree, Pakistan
- Bryan Talbot (born 24 February 1952) is a British comics artist and writer, best known as the creator of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and its sequel Heart of Empire, as well as the Grandville series of books. He collaborated with his wife, Mary M. Talbot to produce Dotter of Her Father's Eyes, which won the 2012 Costa biography award.
- Birthplace: Wigan, United Kingdom
- Carl Critchlow is a British fantasy and science fiction comic illustrator. He is best known for his character Thrud the Barbarian, which originally appeared in White Dwarf magazine, and for his work for the Lobster Random comics.
- Birthplace: Liverpool, United Kingdom
Charles Hamilton
Dec. at 85 (1876-1961)Charles Harold St. John Hamilton (8 August 1876 – 24 December 1961) was an English writer, specialising in writing long-running series of stories for weekly magazines about recurrent casts of characters, his most frequent and famous genre being boys' public school stories, though he also dealt with other genres. He used a variety of pen-names, generally using a different name for each set of characters he wrote about, the most famous being Frank Richards for the Greyfriars School stories (featuring Billy Bunter). Other important pen-names included Martin Clifford (for St Jim's), Owen Conquest (for Rookwood) and Ralph Redway (for The Rio Kid). He also wrote hundreds of stories under his real name such as the Ken King stories for The Modern Boy. He is estimated to have written about 100 million words in his lifetime (Lofts & Adley 1970:170) and has featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most prolific author. Vast amounts of his output are available on the Friardale website.- Birthplace: London Borough of Ealing, London, United Kingdom
- Charles Peattie (born 3 April 1958) is a British cartoonist, best known as half of the team (with Russell Taylor) that creates the comic strip Alex. He has two daughters and two sons, and lives in London. He was appointed MBE in the 2002 Honours List.
- Birthplace: United Kingdom
Chris Webster
Age: 64- Christopher John Reid, FRSL (born 13 May 1949) is a Hong Kong-born British poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer. In January 2010 he won the 2009 Costa Book Award for A Scattering, written as a tribute to his late wife, the actress Lucinda Gane. Beside winning the poetry category, Reid became the first poet to take the overall Costa Book of the Year since Seamus Heaney in 1999. He had been nominated for Whitbread Awards in 1996 and in 1997 (Costa Awards under their previous name).
- Birthplace: Hong Kong, China
Colin Cotterill
Age: 72Colin Cotterill (born 2 October 1952) is a London-born teacher, comic book writer and cartoonist. Cotterill has dual English and Australian citizenship; however, he currently lives in Southeast Asia, where he writes the award-winning Dr. Siri mystery series set in Lao People's Democratic Republic, and the Jimm Juree crime novels set in southern Thailand.- Birthplace: London, United Kingdom
D'Israeli
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) was a British politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Disraeli or D'Israeli may also refer to:- Dan Abnett (born 12 October 1965) is a British comic book writer and novelist. He has been a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning, and is known for his work on books for both Marvel Comics, and their UK imprint, Marvel UK, since the 1990s, and also 2000 AD. He has also contributed to DC Comics titles, and his Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 novels and graphic novels for Games Workshop's Black Library now run to several dozen titles and have sold over two million copies. In 2009 he released his first original fiction novels through Angry Robot books.
- Birthplace: England
Daniel Schaffer
Age: 55Dan Schaffer (born 3 February 1969) is a British writer/artist working primarily in comics and film. He is best known as the writer and illustrator of cult comic book series, Dogwitch. He is also the co-creator/artist of Indigo Vertigo, a collaboration with Queenadreena / Daisy Chainsaw singer Katiejane Garside, and writer/artist of the original graphic novel The Scribbler. Schaffer's art career started with the UK Teachers Union, NASUWT, and from 1995 to 2000 he worked as a political cartoonist for the Career Teacher national newspaper. In 2000 he moved to the music industry where he designed record sleeves, most notably working alongside London drum and bass outfit Jerona Fruits Recordings as their graphic designer. Schaffer then worked as a graphic artist at Nucleus Films. In 2007, Schaffer's comedy/horror screenplay Doghouse was optioned by Carnaby International, to be directed by Jake West.Dave Follows
Dec. at 62 (1941-2003)Dave Follows (3 October 1941 – 17 October 2003) was a British cartoonist best known for his comic strip Creature Feature.- Birthplace: United Kingdom
Dave Gibbons
Age: 75David Chester Gibbons (born 14 April 1949) is an English comics artist, writer and sometimes letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything". He was an artist for 2000 AD, for which he contributed a large body of work from its first issue in 1977.- Birthplace: England
David Britton
David Britton is a British author, artist, and publisher. In the 1970s he founded Weird Fantasy and Crucified Toad, a series of small press magazines of the speculative fiction and horror genres. In 1976, Britton and Michael Butterworth co-founded the controversial publishing house Savoy Books.David Hine
Age: 76David Hine (born 1956) is an English comic book writer and artist, known for his work on Silent War and The Bulletproof Coffin.David Low
Dec. at 72 (1891-1963)Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (7 April 1891 – 19 September 1963) was a New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years. Low was a self-taught cartoonist. Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney in 1911, and ultimately to London (1919), where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his merciless satirising of the personalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times. Low was born and educated in New Zealand. His first work was published when he was only 11 years old. His professional career began at The Canterbury Times in 1910. The following year he moved to Australia and worked for The Bulletin. His work attracted the attention of Henry Cadbury, the part owner of The Star, and Low moved to London in 1919, working for that paper until 1927, when he moved to the Evening Standard. There he produced his most famous work, chronicling the rise of fascism in the 1930s, the policy of Appeasement, and the conflict of World War II. His stinging depictions of Hitler and Mussolini led to his work being banned in Italy and Germany, and his being named in The Black Book.- Birthplace: Dunedin, New Zealand
- David Trumble (born 6 March 1986) is a British film writer/director and political cartoonist for The Sun newspaper.
- Birthplace: Oxford, United Kingdom
Denis Gifford
Dec. at 72 (1927-2000)Denis Gifford (26 December 1927 – 18 May 2000) was a British writer, broadcaster, journalist, comic artist and historian of film, comics, television and radio. In his lengthy career, he wrote and drew for British comics; wrote more than fifty books on the creators, performers, characters and history of popular media; devised, compiled and contributed to popular programmes for radio and television; and directed several short films. Gifford was also a major comics collector, owning what was perhaps the largest collection of British comics in the world.Gifford's work in the history of film and comics, particularly in Britain, provided an account of the work in those media of previously unattempted scope, discovering countless lost films and titles and identifying numerous uncredited creators. He was particularly interested in the early stages in film and comics history, for which records were scarce and unreliable, and his own vast collection was an invaluable source. Gifford produced detailed filmographies of every traceable fiction, non-fiction and animated film ever released in the UK, and of early animated films in the US. He compiled the first comics catalogue attempting to list every comic ever published in the UK, as well as the first price guide for British comics. His research into the early development of comics and cinema laid the groundwork for their academic study, and his reference works remain key texts in the fields. Gifford was also a cartoonist and comic artist who worked for numerous titles, mostly for British comics in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Although these were largely humour strips, he worked in a range of genres including superhero, Western, science fiction and adventure.- Birthplace: London, United Kingdom
Donald Rooum
Age: 96Donald Rooum (born 20 April 1928) is an English anarchist cartoonist and writer. He has a long association with Freedom Press who have published seven volumes of his Wildcat cartoons. In 1963 he played a key role in exposing Harold Challenor, a corrupt police officer who tried to frame him.Ed Pinsent
Age: 65Ed Pinsent (born 1960, Liverpool, England) is a British cartoonist, artist, and writer.- Birthplace: Liverpool, United Kingdom
Edward Berridge
Eric Holmes
Age: 50Eric Holmes is a Scottish writer, creative director and videogame designer. He is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and has worked for DICE since February 2015. He has also worked in comics, being the writer of IDW Publishing's miniseries The Transformers: Megatron Origin.- Birthplace: Kilmarnock, United Kingdom
- Cyril Kenneth Bird CBE (17 December 1887 – 11 June 1965), known by the pen name Fougasse, was a British cartoonist best known for his work in Punch magazine (of which he served as editor from 1949 to 1953) and his World War II warning propaganda posters. He also designed many posters for the London Underground.
- Birthplace: London, United Kingdom
Francis Wilford-Smith
Dec. at 82 (1927-2009)Francis Wilford-Smith (12 March 1927 – 4 December 2009) was a British cartoonist, graphic artist, and producer and archivist of blues music. As a cartoonist, he used the pseudonym Smilby, a contraction of his surname with his wife's maiden name.- Birthplace: Rugby, United Kingdom
Frank Hampson
Dec. at 66 (1918-1985)Frank Hampson (21 December 1918 – 8 July 1985) was a British illustrator, best known as the creator and artist of Dan Dare and other characters in the boys' comic, the Eagle, to which he contributed from 1950 to 1961. He wrote and drew Dan Dare's Venus and Red Moon stories, plus a complete storyline for Operation Saturn. However, Hampson drew only part of the Saturn story and his script was altered when he passed the strip to assistants. Between 1964 and 1970 he also illustrated ten books for Ladybird Books, including Nursery Rhymes, Kings and Queens, and Peter and Jane.- Birthplace: Audenshaw, United Kingdom
- Gary Russell (born 18 September 1963 in Maidenhead, Berkshire) is a British freelance writer, producer and former child actor. As a writer, he is best known for his work in connection with the television series Doctor Who and its spin-offs in other media. As an actor, he is best known for playing Dick Kirrin in the British 1978 television series The Famous Five.
- Birthplace: Maidenhead, England
Gary Whitta
Age: 52Gary Leslie Whitta (born 21 July 1972) is a screenwriter, author, game designer, and video game journalist. He is known as the former editor-in-chief of both the UK and US editions of PC Gamer magazine and contributor to gaming magazine ACE. Whitta was the screenwriter of The Book of Eli (2010), co-wrote After Earth (2013) with M. Night Shyamalan, and co-developed the story for Rogue One (2016).- Birthplace: Poplar, London, United Kingdom
George Belcher
Dec. at 72 (1875-1947)George Frederick Arthur Belcher (19 September 1875 – 3 October 1947) was an English cartoonist, etcher and painter of genre, sporting subjects and still life. He was born in London on 19 September 1875 and studied at the Gloucester School of Art. He drew for the Punch Almanac from 1906 and for Punch itself regularly from 1911; also for the Tatler and Vanity Fair. Belcher exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1909. He was made an Associate (A.R.A.) in 1931, and a Royal Academician (R.A.) 1946. His first one-man show was at the Leicester Galleries in 1909. He died at Chiddingfold, Surrey on 3 October 1947. A retrospective exhibition was held at Cranleigh Hall in 1954.- Birthplace: Johannesburg, South Africa
George du Maurier
Dec. at 62 (1834-1896)George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896) was a Franco-British cartoonist and writer, known for his work in Punch and for his Gothic novel Trilby, which featured the character Svengali. He was the father of actor Sir Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier. He was also the father of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and grandfather of the five boys who inspired J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan.- Birthplace: Paris, France
George Worsley Adamson
Dec. at 92 (1913-2005)George Worsley Adamson, RE, MCSD (7 February 1913 – 5 March 2005) was a book illustrator, writer, and cartoonist, who held American and British dual citizenship from 1931.- Gerald Anthony Scarfe, CBE, RDI (born 1 June 1936) is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He has worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker. His other work includes graphics for rock group Pink Floyd, particularly on their 1979 album The Wall, its 1982 film adaptation, and tour (1980–81), as well as the music video for "Welcome to the Machine". Scarfe was the production designer on the Disney animated feature Hercules (1997). Scarfe also provided the opening titles for Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.
- Birthplace: London, England
Gerry Finley-Day
Gerry Finley-Day (born 1947, Broughty Ferry, Dundee) is a Scottish comics writer, prolific from the 1960s to the 1980s, best known as the creator of "Rogue Trooper".Glenn Dakin
Age: 65Glenn Dakin (born 1960) is a British cartoonist and author of children's books. He is the author of the Candle Man book series, and he contributed to a number of British comics magazines including Escape and Deadline and was part of the British small press comics scene in the 1980s. His main creations are Temptation and the semi-autobiographical strip Abe.- Birthplace: United Kingdom
Gordon Rennie
Gordon Rennie is a Scottish comics writer, responsible for White Trash: Moronic Inferno, as well as several comic strips for 2000 AD and novels for Warhammer Fantasy. In May 2008 he announced he was quitting comics to concentrate full-time on videogames which "are more fun, pay better and have a brighter future." However, he has since written several new series for 2000 AD, Titan and others. −Graham Dury
Age: 62Graham Dury (born in Clifton, Nottingham) is a British cartoonist. He is known for his work with adult comic Viz, having contributed to the magazine from its early years. He co-conceived and personally created The Fat Slags, one of the magazine's most famous strips.Having previously worked engineering cacti at the University of Leicester, Dury was the first cartoonist to be offered a full-time job at Viz by co-creator Chris Donald in April 1988, when royalties began to make the magazine a profitable business. However, Dury had been contributing to Viz since as early as 1985, often delivering his cartoons by hand to Donald's house. Early creations, Donald noted, tended to have names that rhymed such as Tristam Banks and his Jocular Pranks or Albert Gordon the Traffic Warden. He also noted Dury's fondness of, and impressive ability to draw, cowboy boots. Dury originally worked with Donald in Donald's small office (formerly his bedroom) at his parents' house in Jesmond. As the success of the comic book grew he became a member of the so-called Viz editorial cabinet, theoretically headed by Chris Donald, but which also included - for most of its run - Dury, Simon Donald and Simon Thorp. Dury currently draws such cartoons as Biffa Bacon, Spoilt Bastard, Postman Plod and Roger Mellie. He took over drawing the latter strip from Chris Donald when he gave up day-to-day duties in 1999.- Birthplace: United Kingdom
- Henry Mayo Bateman (15 February 1887 – 11 February 1970, Gozo, Malta) was a British humorous artist and cartoonist. H. M. Bateman was noted for his "The Man Who..." series of cartoons, featuring comically exaggerated reactions to minor and usually upper-class social gaffes, such as "The Man Who Lit His Cigar Before the Royal Toast", "The Man Who Threw a Snowball at St. Moritz" and "The Boy Who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum." which appeared in the satirical magazine Punch.
- Birthplace: Sutton Forest, Australia
- Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton (23 May 1921 – 25 April 2008), also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the aristocratic Lyttelton family. Having taught himself the trumpet at school, Lyttelton became a popular figure of the trad jazz revival, leading his own eight-piece band, which recorded a hit single, "Bad Penny Blues", in 1956. As a broadcaster, he presented BBC Radio 2's The Best of Jazz for forty years, and hosted the comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue on Radio 4, becoming the UK's oldest panel game host. Lyttelton was also a cartoonist, collaborating on the long-running Flook series in the Daily Mail, and a calligrapher and president of The Society for Italic Handwriting.
- Birthplace: Eton, United Kingdom
Hunt Emerson
Age: 73Ian Edginton
Ian Edginton is a British comic book writer, known for his work on such titles as X-Force, Scarlet Traces, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds and Leviathan.Igor Goldkind
Age: 64Igor Goldkind was born April 20, 1960 in Lansing, Michigan and raised in San Diego, California. He is an author, poet, and lecturer who currently specializes in Digital Storytelling and Information Architecture.- Birthplace: Lansing, Michigan
Ilya
Ed Hillyer, better known as ILYA, is a British comics writer/artist. His work has appeared in publications from all the major US and UK comics companies, from Fleetway Editions' Crisis, Dark Horse's Manga Mania, Deadline magazine to work for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.- Birthplace: Russia
Jack Edward Oliver
Dec. at 64 (1942-2007)Jack Edward Oliver (19 June 1942 – 26 May 2007) was a British cartoonist. He is more usually known as J. Edward Oliver or JEO, and to his friends he was just "Jack".- Birthplace: United Kingdom
Jack Kirkbride
Dec. at 82 (1923-2006)Jack Kirkbride (31 March 1923 – 1 October 2006) was an English cartoonist, and father to Anne Kirkbride, the actress who played Deirdre Barlow in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1972-2014.Kirkbride left school at the age of 14 to become an apprentice painter and decorator but was called up for the Army at age 18, when he started drawing cartoons. He served from 1942 as a transport driver with the Royal Army Service Corps. He fought in the Normandy Campaign in 1944 and was demobbed in 1946. He sold his first cartoon to a national paper in 1953 (a Mothers' Day gag for the Sunday Dispatch), and has since sold to most national papers and magazines, including Punch and The Oldie. His work also appears in the German press under the name of Jacki. He became the Oldham Evening Chronicle's regular cartoonist in 1958 and went full-time in the 1970s.He was a founder member of the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain and his work was published across Europe.Kirkbride won first prize at the Waddington's International Cartoon Festival (Margate 1989). His hobbies included listening to classical music, renovating his 18th century farmhouse on the edge of Saddleworth Moor and playing the pianola. He died of an aneurysm at his home in Oldham, at the age of 83.- Birthplace: Oldham, United Kingdom
Jack Lawrence
Age: 50Jack Lawrence (born 1975 in Canterbury, Kent) is a British comics creator. Prior to 2002 he also worked as an animator.- Birthplace: Canterbury, United Kingdom
- James Dale Robinson is a British writer of American comic books and screenplays who is known for his interest in vintage collectibles and memorabilia. Some of his best known comics are series focusing on the Justice Society of America, in particular the Starman character he co-created with Tony Harris.
- Birthplace: England, Manchester
Jamie Delano
Age: 71Jamie Delano (; born 1954) is a British comics writer. He was part of the first post-Alan Moore "British Invasion" of writers which started to feature in American comics in the 1980s. Best known as the first writer of the comic book series Hellblazer, featuring John Constantine.- Birthplace: Northampton, England
- Jamie Christopher Hewlett (born 3 April 1968) is an English comic creator, animator, designer, and artist, best known as the co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl and the virtual band Gorillaz.
- Birthplace: England, Horsham
Jim Holdaway
Dec. at 43 (1927-1970)Jim Holdaway (1927–1970) was a British illustrator, who contributed art for numerous comic strips. His best known work was on the Modesty Blaise comics written by Peter O'Donnell.- Birthplace: London, United Kingdom
Joe Berger
Age: 55Joe Berger is an illustrator and cartoonist from Bristol. He has been making films, illustrating and cartooning since 1991. In 1992 he drew his own British small press comics Shooba heavily influenced by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb. These were autobiographical strips and a surreal strip Drift Dream with a tank rolling down the street same as Ingmar Bergman's The Silence. He drew The Slap of Doom in Psychopia. In 1993 he drew The Artist with writer Mike Von Joel a picture book about how a talentless Neo-conceptual art student makes it big in the art world similar to Young British Artists Damien Hirst. It has recently been republished. He often works with writer/sound magician Pascal Wyse. Every Friday Since 2003, Berger and Wyse have produced The Pitchers comic strip in The Guardian. It is about the madness of Hollywood seen through the eyes of a pair of scriptwriters. He is currently working on his first children's book Bridget FidgetHe also plays shortstop for the Bangers, a coed softball team based in Mesa, Arizona.- Birthplace: Bristol, United Kingdom
John Fardell
Age: 58John Fardell (born 1967) is an English cartoonist, and author and illustrator of children's books.- Birthplace: United Kingdom
John Geering
Dec. at 58 (1941-1999)John Keith Geering (9 March 1941 – 13 August 1999) was a British cartoonist with a distinctive, occasionally flamboyant style, most famous for his work for DC Thomson comics including Sparky, The Topper, Cracker, Plug, Nutty, The Beano and The Dandy.Geerings strips included: Puss 'n' Boots (Sparky/Topper/Dandy), a more anarchic, surreal take on the traditional cat-and-dog strips, complete with bizarre dialogue and situations - Boots, for example, having taken a gardening job, boasts that the perks include "all the grass I can eat", whilst Puss can be found selling ice cream at the North Pole. Smudge (Beano), correctly billed as the world's dirtiest schoolboy, relishing any opportunity to get covered in grime and filth that presents itself. Bananaman (Nutty/Dandy/Beano), a bungling superhero whose alter-ego is a stubble-headed schoolboy. This character proved particularly popular during its run in Nutty, and spawned an animated television series voiced by Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden. The strip continues today in The Dandy, drawn by Andy Janes. Bananaman Geering reprints have been running in The Beano since January 2012. He worked at Cosgrove Hall animation studios in Manchester on Danger Mouse, Count Duckula, and the 1989 film The BFG based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. Geering's last new strip was Dean's Dino, which he drew for The Beano shortly before his death. He also produced topical and political satire cartoons for British newspapers. He had lived in the village of Comberbach with his wife for many years before his death. He died in Warrington, aged 58.John Peel
Age: 71John Peel (born 1954) is a British writer, best known for his TV series tie-in novels and novelisations. He has written under several pseudonyms, including "John Vincent" and "Nicholas Adams". He lives in Long Island, New York. While his wife is a US citizen, Peel continues to travel under a British passport.- John Gerald Christopher Ryan (4 March 1921 – 22 July 2009) was a British animator and cartoonist, best known for his character Captain Pugwash.
- Birthplace: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
John Smith
Age: 58John Smith (born 1967) is a British comics writer best known for his work on 2000 AD and Crisis. Smith's work is characterised by intricate, sometimes obscure plots and an interest in taboos and the occult, told in an elliptic, fractured narrative style reminiscent of Iain Sinclair or the cut-up technique of William S. Burroughs. Other notable influences include Michael Moorcock, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alan Moore and Noël Coward. His best-known character is Devlin Waugh, a flamboyantly gay exorcist, assassin and vampire working for the Vatican of the future, co-created with artist Sean Phillips for the Judge Dredd Megazine.- Birthplace: Darwen, United Kingdom
John Tomlinson
Age: 99John Tomlinson is a British comic book writer and editor known for his work on various 2000 AD strips. He has occasionally been credited as Sonny Steelgrave.- Birthplace: United Kingdom
- John Wagner (born 1949) is an American-born British comics writer. Alongside Pat Mills, he helped revitalise British comics in the 1970s, and continues to be active in the British comics industry, occasionally also working in American comics. He is best known as the co-creator, with artist Carlos Ezquerra, of the character Judge Dredd. Wagner started his career in editorial with D. C. Thomson & Co. in the late 1960s before becoming a freelance writer and a staff editor at IPC in the 1970s. He has worked in children's humour and girls' adventure comics, but is most notable for his boys' adventure comics; he helped launch Battle Picture Weekly (1975), for which he wrote "Darkie's Mob", and 2000 AD (1977), for which he created numerous characters, including Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Robo-Hunter and Button Man. In the 1980s, he and co-writer Alan Grant wrote prolifically for IPC's 2000 AD, Battle, Eagle, Scream! and Roy of the Rovers. They also wrote for DC Comics' Batman in the U.S., created a series of Batman and Judge Dredd team-up comics, and started the British independent comic The Bogie Man. Judge Dredd has twice been adapted for film, and David Cronenberg adapted Wagner's graphic novel A History of Violence into the 2005 film of the same name. Wagner continues to write for 2000 AD and Judge Dredd Megazine.
- Birthplace: Pennsylvania
John Walker
Age: 47John Graham Walker (born 27 October 1977) is a British computer games journalist, as well as a cartoonist and TV critic.Kelvin Gosnell
Kelvin Gosnell is a British comics writer and editor. He was involved in the founding of the long-running comic 2000 AD in 1977.Ken Reid
Dec. at 67 (1919-1987)Ken or Kenneth Reid may refer to: Ken Reid (comics) (1919–1987), British cartoonist Ken Reid (journalist) (born 1955), Northern Irish journalist Ken Reid (comedian) (born 1980), American stand-up comedian Kenneth Reid (legal scholar), professor of Scottish law at University of Edinburgh Kenneth A. Reid (1919–1996), American art director- Birthplace: Manchester, United Kingdom
Kevin Woodcock
Dec. at 64 (1942-2007)Kevin Robert Woodcock (2 September 1942 – 2 July 2007) was a British cartoonist. Kevin Woodcock was born at Leicester General Hospital. After attending Holmfield Avenue Junior School in Leicester and the Dixie Grammar School in Market Bosworth, Kevin Woodcock studied at the Leicester College of Art from 1961 to 1964. He contributed cartoons to such publications as Private Eye, Daily Sketch, The Spectator, Knave, Fiesta, Brain Damage, Punch and The Oldie.- Birthplace: United Kingdom
- Kieron Michael Gillen (; born 1975) is a British comic book writer and former computer game and music journalist. He is known for his creator-owned comics Phonogram and The Wicked + The Divine, both created with artist Jamie McKelvie and published by Image Comics, and for numerous projects for Marvel Comics, such as Journey into Mystery, Uncanny X-Men, and Young Avengers.
- Birthplace: Stafford, United Kingdom
Lee Kennedy
Leo Baxendale
Age: 94Joseph Leo Baxendale (27 October 1930 – 23 April 2017) was an English cartoonist and publisher. Baxendale wrote and drew several titles. Among his best known creations are the Beano strips Little Plum, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, and The Three Bears.- Birthplace: City of Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Marc Gascoigne
Age: 62Marc Gascoigne (born 5 July 1962 at Temple Ewell with River, near Dover, Kent) is a British author and editor. He is the editor, author or co-author of more than fifty books and gaming related titles, notably various Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, Shadowrun novels and adventures, Earthdawn novels and adventures, the original Games Workshop Judge Dredd roleplaying game, and material for Paranoia, Call of Cthulhu and many others listed below.- Birthplace: Dover, United Kingdom
- Martin Rowson (born 15 February 1959) is a British editorial cartoonist and writer. His genre is political satire and his style is scathing and graphic. He characterizes his work as "visual journalism". His cartoons appear frequently in The Guardian and the Daily Mirror. He also contributes freelance cartoons to other publications, such as Tribune, Index on Censorship and the Morning Star. He is chair of the British Cartoonists' Association .
- Birthplace: London, United Kingdom
Matt Pritchett
Age: 60Matthew Pritchett MBE (born 14 July 1964) has been the pocket cartoonist on The Daily Telegraph newspaper under the pen name Matt since 1988. Pritchett studied graphics at Saint Martin's School of Art. Unable to gain employment as a film cameraman, he worked as a waiter in a pizza restaurant, drawing cartoons in his spare time. 'Matt' had his first drawings published in the New Statesman and his work has also appeared in Punch and The Spectator. The son of Telegraph columnist Oliver Pritchett and the grandson of V. S. Pritchett, Pritchett has four children with his wife. He was appointed an MBE in 2002 and, in 2003, The Observer listed him as one of the 50 funniest people in the UK. His sister is comedy scriptwriter Georgia Pritchett, who has written for Veep and Miranda.On 23 February 2006, the cartoons by 'Matt' became available in The Daily Telegraph podcast's picture window.- Matt Smith, born and raised in Northampton, England, has crafted a compelling acting career that spans theatre, television, and film. He was born on October 28, 1982, and grew up with a passion for sports, particularly football. His aspirations of becoming a professional football player were dashed due to a back injury, which led him to turn his attention towards acting. Smith's entry into the world of drama began with roles in various school plays and the National Youth Theatre in London. Smith's breakthrough role came when he was cast as the eleventh Doctor in the iconic British television series Doctor Who in 2010. At the age of 26, he became the youngest actor to take on this coveted role, breaking new ground with his unique interpretation of the character. His tenure as the Time Lord lasted for four years, earning him a BAFTA nomination and cementing his status as one of Britain's most talented actors. Beyond Doctor Who, Smith's repertoire of memorable performances is expansive. He showcased his versatility by portraying Prince Philip in the Netflix series The Crown, a role that earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. On the big screen, Smith has appeared in films such as Terminator Genisys and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. In addition to his screen work, Smith has also impressed audiences with his stage performances, notably in American Psycho: The Musical at the Almeida Theatre in London.
- Birthplace: Northampton, England, UK
Mel Calman
Dec. at 62 (1931-1994)Melville Calman (19 May 1931, Stamford Hill – 10 February 1994, London) was a British cartoonist best known for his "little man" cartoons published in British newspapers including the Daily Express (1957–63), The Sunday Telegraph (1964–65), The Observer (1965-6), The Sunday Times (1969–84) and The Times (1979–94).- Birthplace: Stamford Hill, London, United Kingdom
Michael ffolkes
Dec. at 63 (1925-1988)Michael Ffolkes (6 June 1925 – 18 October 1988) was a British illustrator and cartoonist most famous for his work on the Peter Simple column in The Daily Telegraph. He also worked for Punch and Playboy. Born as Brian Davis in London, he studied art at Saint Martin's School of Art, and in 1942 sold his first drawing to Punch, signing it "brian". He went on to study painting at the Chelsea School of Art and later adopted "Michael Ffolkes" as his artistic name, becoming a professional cartoonist in 1949. He typically signed his cartoons as "ffolkes" in an all-lowercase printed style. In 1955, Ffolkes began to illustrate the "Way of the World" column in the The Daily Telegraph. In 1961, he began illustrating Punch film reviews, and later its covers.Ffolkes contributed to such newspapers and magazines as The Strand Magazine, Lilliput, the The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Sunday Telegraph, Playboy, Private Eye, The New Yorker, Reader's Digest, Krokodil, and Esquire. He was a prolific illustrator of children's books, in particular those of Roald Dahl, and published his autobiography, ffundamental ffolkes, in 1985.According to Ken Pyne, the cartoonist Martin Honeysett "... achieved almost legendary status when he threw a huge wobbly cake baked for Private Eye's 21st birthday party over the head of the notoriously pompous cartoonist Michael Ffolkes. His name will live forever just for that."Michael Heath
Age: 90Michael John Heath is a British strip cartoonist and illustrator. He has been cartoon editor of The Spectator since 1991.Mick Anglo
Dec. at 95 (1916-2011)Michael "Mick" Anglo (born Maurice Anglowitz, 19 June 1916 – 31 October 2011) was a British comic book writer, editor and artist, as well as an author. He is best known for creating the superhero Marvelman, later known as Miracleman.- Birthplace: Bow, London, United Kingdom
Mick Bunnage
Age: 66Mick Bunnage (born 21 December 1958) is a cartoonist, journalist, and comedy writer and was formerly the bass guitarist of The Deep Freeze Mice. He is the co-creator of the Modern Toss comic, which was also turned into a TV series by Channel 4. He has also worked as a writer on the BBC's 2004 The Stupid Version. Bunnage was one of the three co-creators of Loaded magazine in 1994, alongside original editor James Brown and deputy editor Tim Southwell, and went on to become associate editor. Under the guise of Dr. Mick he continued to contribute to Loaded until 2004, where he created, with Jon Link, the Office Pest cartoon strip, which became a prototype for Modern Toss. The duo went on to contribute cartoons to a broad range of publications including The Guardian and the Daily Mirror. They then produced a website, shitflap.com, in 2003.Mike Collins
Age: 64Michael Collins may refer to:- Birthplace: West Bromwich, United Kingdom
Nick Landau
Nick Landau is a British media figure, co-owner of the Titan Entertainment Group, which publishes Titan Magazines and Titan Books and owns the London Forbidden Planet store.- Birthplace: United Kingdom
Nigel Kitching
Age: 65Nigel Kitching (born 29 May 1959) is an illustrator and writer in comics and in books. He is best known for his work in British comics, especially Sonic the Comic. Since 2001, Kitching has lectured at Teesside University.- Sir Osbert Lancaster, CBE (4 August 1908 – 27 July 1986) was an English cartoonist, architectural historian, stage designer and author. He was known for his cartoons in the British press, and for his lifelong work to inform the general public about good buildings and architectural heritage. The only child of a prosperous family, Lancaster was educated at Charterhouse School and Lincoln College, Oxford, at both of which he was an undistinguished scholar. From an early age he was determined to be a professional artist and designer, and studied at leading art colleges in Oxford and London. While working as a contributor to The Architectural Review in the mid-1930s, Lancaster published the first of a series of books on architecture, aiming to simultaneously amuse the general reader and demystify the subject. Several of the terms he coined as labels for architectural styles have gained common usage, including "Pont Street Dutch" and "Stockbrokers' Tudor", and his books have continued to be regarded as important works of reference on the subject. In 1938 Lancaster was invited to contribute topical cartoons to The Daily Express. He introduced the single column-width cartoon popular in the French press but not until then seen in British papers. Between 1939 and his retirement in 1981 he drew about 10,000 of these "pocket cartoons", which made him a nationally known figure. He developed a cast of regular characters, led by his best-known creation, Maudie Littlehampton, through whom he expressed his views on the fashions, fads and political events of the day. From his youth, Lancaster wanted to design for the theatre, and in 1951 he was commissioned to create costumes and scenery for a new ballet, Pineapple Poll. Between then and the early 1970s he designed new productions for the Royal Ballet, Glyndebourne, D'Oyly Carte, the Old Vic and the West End. His productivity declined in his later years, when his health began to fail. He died at his London home in Chelsea, aged 77. His diverse career, honoured by a knighthood in 1975, was celebrated by an exhibition at the Wallace Collection marking the centenary of his birth and titled Cartoons and Coronets: The Genius of Osbert Lancaster.
- Birthplace: London, United Kingdom
Pat Mills
Age: 76Pat Eamon Mills (born 1949) is a British comics writer and editor who, along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s, and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since. He has been called "the godfather of British comics".His comics are notable for their violence and anti-authoritarianism. He is best known for creating 2000 AD and playing a major part in the development of Judge Dredd.Paul Jenkins
Age: 59Paul Jenkins (born 6 December 1965) is a British comic book writer, screenwriter, novelist, and narrative director. He has had much success crossing over into the American comic book market. Primarily working for Marvel Comics, Jenkins had a big part shaping the characters of the company, helping via the Marvel Knights imprint to propel Marvel from Chapter 11 bankruptcy before choosing to focus on independent publications. He is also noted for his groundbreaking narrative work in the field of video games, and is recognized as one of the world's preeminent "cross-media" creators for his work across such multiple media as animation, video games, comic books, and film. Despite his commercial success, Jenkins is a noted advocate for creators' rights thanks in part to his early days at Mirage Studios and Tundra Publishing, where he witnessed first hand the drafting of the Creators Bill of Rights. He has spoken frequently in support of mentoring, and the need for hands-on education in the entertainment industry.- Birthplace: London, United Kingdom
Paul Neal
Paul Neal is a British comics writer. He has worked for Fleetway Publishing on Judge Dredd Megazine and the long running science fiction anthology 2000 AD in the late 1990s. Much of his work was created in collaboration with the artist Marc Wigmore. He later went on to co-own and manage The Hive chain on comic shops on the south coast of England. There were three branches in the chain of shops, the first of these was in the North Laine area of Brighton on Kensigton Gardens, further branches opened in The Guildbourne Centre in Worthing, and The Enterprise Centre in Eastbourne. The Hive no longer exists after the business was declared bankrupt in 2001 after six years trading.Paul Neary
Paul Neary (born 1949) is a British comic book artist, writer and editor. His first work was for Warren Publishing in the 1970s before working with Dez Skinn at Marvel UK as well as work for 2000 AD. He later became editor-in-chief of Marvel UK in the 1990s but is now best known for inking Bryan Hitch's work on The Ultimates for Marvel Comics.Paul Scott
Paul Scott, sometimes known as Paul von Scott, is a British comics writer and games designer who is very active in the British small press comics scene.Pete Loveday
Pete Loveday is a British underground cartoonist. He drew many comics charting the adventures of hippie character Russell including Big Bang Comics, Big Trip Travel Agency, Plain Rapper Comix printed by AK Press.He draws like Robert Crumb or Gilbert Shelton with lots of cross-hatching. Big Bang Comics is Britain's most successful underground comics. Recurring themes in the comics are drugs, Rock festivals, environmentalism etc. Plain Rapper Comix #2 is Loveday's pamphlet in comic book form on a history of hemp and why it would be beneficial for the environment to replace tree paper with hemp paper and he practices what he preaches by being the first publication in modern times to be printed on such paper. The Russell comics were reprinted in book form Russell, The Saga of a peaceful man published by John Brown Publishing. Russell reappeared in the Big Trip Travel Agency series published by AK Press (6 volumes); which are a series of short stand alone cartoons and also a serialised longer story. Issue 2 featured The Levellers. After Big Trip 5 (1999) Russell's story was to be continued in Volume 6, which it seemed would never appear. Then in 2012, to many fan's delight, AKPress made Big Trip 6 available through their website and through a mainstream Internet retailer where some reviews of Loveday's classic comics can also be read.As a champion of British small press comics he drew lots of multi-artist jam strips in B. Patston's Psychopia. He drew a Russell comic in Danny King's Blah, Blah, Blah!He used to have a stall at Glastonbury Festival, selling his comics and other items and now, after a gap of more than a decade, has a stall at the Secret Garden Party and Beautiful Days, both festivals for which he produces artwork. Although he has had some problems with his eyesight these are finally being resolved, and have never really prevented him from producing a wide range of artwork, ranging from advertising posters (including some unlikely billboard art for Nike) through greetings cards, postcards, CD and record sleeve designs, book illustrations to flyers and T-shirt designs. In July 2018 Freedom Seeds, a UK based seed bank, named a cannabis strain ‘Big Trip’ in tribute to Loveday. Pete created a logo for the product.Loveday attributes his black sense of humour to having spent the 1969 Summer of Love disembowelling chickens in a poultry processing factory, a traumatic experience which left him with a morbid fear of death. He lives in Devon with his wife Kate.Pete Nash
Pete Nash may refer to: Pete Nash (comics), creator of the British comic strip Striker Pete Nash (game designer), role-playing game designerPeter Hogan
Age: 71Peter Kenneth Hogan (born 5 May 1954) is an English writer and comics creator who started out as editor of cult political British comic Revolver in 1990–1991, before working for 2000 AD and American comic book publishers Vertigo and America's Best Comics.Peter O'Donnell
Dec. at 90 (1920-2010)Peter O'Donnell (11 April 1920 – 3 May 2010) was a British writer of mysteries and of comic strips, best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise, an action heroine/undercover trouble-shooter. He was also an award-winning gothic historical romance novelist who wrote under the female pseudonym Madeleine Brent, in 1978, his novel Merlin's Keep won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.- Birthplace: London Borough of Lewisham, London, United Kingdom
Phil Elliott
Age: 65Phil Elliott (born 1960) is a British comic book creator who was published in Escape Magazine. He was part of the British small press comics scene in the 1980s.- British comedian and presenter Phill Jupitus was a civil servant with the Department of Health and Social Security when he began to write political poetry and draw cartoons. He quit his job in 1984 and began performing anti-fascist poetry under name Porky the Poet, with the ultimate aim of building a music career. His supporting gig for socialist musician Billy Bragg led to him directing an award-nominated video for the musician, and he would also go on to produce a video for Kirsty MacColl. In 1992, he made his first television appearance on the program "TV Hell," which celebrated bad TV moments. Two years later, he appeared on two episodes of the panelist program "Loose Talk." In 1996, he landed in a role which was ideally suited to his musical knowledge and emcee skills when he became a team captain on the music quiz program "Never Mind the Buzzcocks"; he has appeared on all 227 episodes of the program since. He has also made regular appearances on the Stephen Fry-hosted comedy quiz show "QI" since 2003. In 1999, he landed the lead, playing an Essex man from the past in the sitcom "Dark Ages," which used the concept of medieval villagers and their fears to parody contemporary issues. Jupitus has also provided voiceovers to various projects, including a 1999 production of "Watership Down," and in 2010, the "Alien vs. Predator" video game.
- Birthplace: Newport, Isle of Wight, England, UK
- Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE (born 9 August 1945) is a British newspaper cartoonist and writer and illustrator of both children's books and graphic novels. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she has drawn the series Gemma Bovery (2000) and Tamara Drewe (2005–06), both later published as books. Her style gently satirises the English middle classes and in particular those of a literary bent. Both of the published books feature a "doomed heroine", much in the style of the 18th- and 19th-century gothic romantic novel, to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant.
- Birthplace: Berkshire, United Kingdom
- Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, CBE, FCSD, FRSL, RDI (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's writer. He is known best for illustrating books written by Roald Dahl. For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. From 1999 to 2001 he was the inaugural British Children's Laureate. He is a patron of the Association of Illustrators.
- Birthplace: Sidcup, London, United Kingdom
- Ralph Idris Steadman (born 15 May 1936) is a Welsh illustrator best known for collaboration and friendship with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Steadman is renowned for his political and social caricatures, cartoons and picture books.
- Birthplace: Wallasey, England
- Richard Burton, born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr. on November 10, 1925, in Pontrhydyfen, Wales, was a prodigious actor best known for his strikingly resonant voice and his tumultuous relationship with actress Elizabeth Taylor. Born into a working-class family of thirteen children, Burton's early life was marked by hardship. His mother died when he was just two years old, leaving him to be raised by his older sister. Despite these challenges, Burton found refuge in literature and acting, paving the way for an illustrious career in the entertainment industry. Burton's talent for acting was discovered by his schoolmaster, Philip Burton, who was so impressed by the young man's potential that he took him under his wing, even going as far as adopting him, which led to Richard taking his surname. Burton's acting career began in earnest with his service in the Royal Air Force during World War II, where he acted in several morale-boosting plays. After the war, he enrolled at Oxford University on a scholarship, where he honed his acting skills further, eventually catching the eye of Hollywood producers. Throughout the course of his career, Burton delivered powerful performances in both film and theater, earning seven Academy Award nominations. Some of his most notable roles included those in Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Beyond his acting career, Burton made headlines for his stormy relationship with Elizabeth Taylor, whom he married twice. Their off-screen chemistry was as palpable as their on-screen pairings, making them one of the most talked-about couples of their era. Burton passed away on August 5, 1984, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire actors worldwide.
- Birthplace: Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK
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Rob Williams
Rob Williams is a Welsh comics writer, working mainly for 2000 AD. He is currently writing books for DC Comics and its Vertigo imprint.Robbie Morrison
Robbie Morrison is a British comics writer most known for his work in the weekly UK title 2000 AD, and as the co-creator of popular character and series Nikolai Dante (with Simon Fraser), serialised for 15 years until 2012.Ron Embleton
Dec. at 57 (1930-1988)Ronald Sydney Embleton (6 October 1930 – 13 February 1988) was a British painter and illustrator who gained fame as a comics artist, his work much admired by fans and editors alike. Following his sudden death aged only 57, his obituary in The Times described him as 'responsible for some of the finest full-colour adventure series in modern British comics ... a grand master of his art' David Ashford and Norman Wright, writing in Book and Magazine Collector (March 2002) note that 'his work for such diverse periodicals as Express Weekly, TV Century 21, Princess, Boys' World and Look and Learn have earned him the respect of every practitioner in the field and the gratitude of all of us who admire the art of the comic strip.' In the 1950s and 1960s Embleton also pursued a career as an oil painter and he exhibited his works widely in Britain, Germany, Australia, Canada and the USA. He was a member of the London Sketch Club and the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Printmakers, and in 1960 was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.- Birthplace: Stepney, East London, United Kingdom
Ron Turner
Dec. at 76 (1922-1998)Ronald Turner (3 August 1922 – 19 December 1998) was a British illustrator and comic book artist.- Birthplace: United Kingdom
Shaky Kane
Michael Coulthard is a British writer and psychedelic artist who best known for his work as a comic and graphic artist under the pseudonym Shaky Kane, as well as Shaky 2000.Si Spencer
Si Spencer is a British comic book writer and TV dramatist and editor, with work appearing in British comics such as Crisis, before moving to the American comics industry. He often collaborates with Dean Ormston.Simon Furman
Simon Christopher Francis Furman is a British comic book writer who is best known for his work on Hasbro/Tomy's Transformers franchise, starting with writing Marvel's initial comic book to promote the toyline worldwide, as well as foundations for both Dreamwave Production's and IDW Publishing's takes on the Generation 1 minifranchise.Simon Oliver
Age: 34Simon Oliver is a British-American comic book writer. He wrote the Wildstorm comic series Gen¹³ and the Vertigo comic book series The Exterminators and Hellblazer Presents: Chas - The Knowledge.- Birthplace: United Kingdom
Simon Spurrier
Simon "Si" Spurrier is a British comics writer and novelist, who has previously worked as a cook, a bookseller, and an art director for the BBC. Getting his start in comics with the British small press, he went on to write his own series for 2000 AD, like Lobster Random, Bec & Kawl, The Simping Detective and Harry Kipling, as well as a number of stories for the flagship character Judge Dredd. In recent years he has broken into the American comic book industry, writing mainly for Marvel Comics. He also wrote Marvel's X-Force in 2014 and 2015, which starred the characters Cable, Psylocke, Marrow and Fantomex.He started co-writing Star Wars: Doctor Aphra from Marvel Comics with Kieron Gillen in November 2017 on issues #14-19, taking over with issue #20 in May 2018. Simon has also written a number of novels, initially on other people's properties, but in 2006 he signed a two-book contract with Hodder Headline, the first of which was Contract (2007) and the second A Serpent Uncoiled (2011).
