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I'm an old punk rock artist and writer who loves to draw cartoons. My work has been published in advertising, print, clothing, and children's books. I enjoy writing and cartooning children's books to raise money for charity organisations. I also run my own children's Cartoon Club. A mental health charity refers to children; they learn to be creative and draw funny! I also manage the Jac Lewis Foundations Cammy Mascot social media. I would love more advertising, editorial, publishing and band/music commissions. I enjoy music culture and drawing punk art and political cartoons. My t-shirt designs feature on www.ska-skull.co.uk
Been drawing cartoons since I was a boy. Old enough to know better now, but no longer have the energy to do anything about it.
What people are saying
“It is a proud Private Eye tradition to take cartoons, er, seriously. They are vital to the success of the magazine, and I should make it clear to any cartoonists reading this that I mean that as a sincere compliment rather than as a promise of a pay rise.”
Ian HislopPrivate Eye
"One of the magical things about cartoonists is they can take the saddest of things - like Covid 19 - and make light of them without leaving a bad taste in the mouth.
They are working on a different, comic, plane where nothing should ever be taken too seriously.
Cartoons are little escapes - not just from the articles in The Oldie, which, brilliant as they are, take longer to read than a one line caption. But they are also escapes from the world, a flight into fantasy: a world where dinosaurs talk, and cavemen have a sophisticated, modern take on Stone Age life."
Harry MountEditor, The Oldie
As a teenager and student, confronting the complications and horrors of the world the satirists helped to rebalance me, with dry laughter.
Yet better still is the gag-cartoonists’ satire of ordinariness, the human predicament skewered in a few skilful lines. I would never live in a house long without a few originals on the wall, making me smile as I walk by, and a collection of masters from Tidy and Mac and Posy and Searle and Stott on the bookshelves. They sustain me, and will until I die.
Thank you all."
Libby Purves
The invitation to be a patron of the PCO is not only an honour but also a chance to beg for mercy for the many cartoon crimes I committed in the name of OINK!
I’m talking 'Dr Mooney - He’s Completely Looney'...'When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth’...and 'Harry The Head'. Lest we forget, Harry was simply that. A head. With no body. A character I engineered simply because I couldn't draw bodies properly. It all unravelled somewhat when I realised that I couldn’t draw heads properly either.
But still I continued.
Shameless.
Thank you for this kind invitation and I hope to be in a position to face your combined indignation over a glass in the near future. (Though of course I’m not going to buy you one.)
Marc RileyBBC Radio 6 Music, erstwhile Fall bassist and failed cartoonist From the blog
ffolkes art
Dean Patterson writes: Why I’m championing the genius of Michael ffolkes. Although probably not entirely forgotten, Michael ffolkes (purposely lowercase) will always it seems have
Cartoonists at the Cafe
Glenn Marshall writes: Ooooh là là, Procartoonists are now enjoying cake and cartoons at the magnifique Soho institution Maison Bertaux . The exhibition is curated by
JAM Bookshop RIP
Glenn Marshall writes: Sadly one of our duties on the blog is to write obituaries – this one is for a book store. The wonderful