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UK Freelance Cartoonist Chris Altham has been scribbling as a professional commercial cartoonist since 1988. Specialist areas include B2B publications, editorial cartoons, advertising and marketing campaigns for clients all over the world. Clients have included Shell, Chevron, Total, NHS, BBC and dirty Gurty from number 30 Chris also runs 'how to draw' cartoon classes online and F2F. On the other hand, he is also a Creative Mix Designer offering the whole caboodle and not just the doodle!
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 
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PCO Cartoon Awards 2024
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Cartoon © Rupert Besley Prompted by this wonderful drawing above by Rupert Besley on the inner sanctums of PCO members forum folk have been sharing