Cartoons in living colour

A lot of my cartoons are black and white linework, so here are some recent examples of full-colour published work.

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Law Society Gazette cover, illustrating an article on how to use LinkedIn.

Cartoon for The Critic magazine.

The Broadstairs Beacon features a cartoon by me in each issue.

From Saga Magazine.

A company Christmas card.

Cartoon for Mischief Comedy, the people behind The Play that Goes Wrong

Book cover illustration.

Doctor Who cartoon from the late, lamented Reader's Digest UK.

A Private Eye Christmas card.

And finally, here's one you can print and colour yourself! From the Professional Cartoonists' Organisation's Great British Colouring Book

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Graffiti cartoon: One from the files

"To deter vandals, I'm doing my own graffiti."

When you do on-spec cartooning you soon build up quite a bank of gag cartoons. This means that when someone wants a cartoon on a particular subject, you can pull one from the files.

So this cartoon, which was languishing in the rejected file, was taken by a client to illustrate an article about graffiti – which was nice, as I spent a fair bit of time on the graffiti when I drew it originally!

Originally the old guy was "Alf", rather than "Wilf", as that was my Grandad's name and it strikes me as the perfect name for an old-man character. But then I thought people might take the "ALF" as standing for the Animal Liberation Front, which could confuse matters.

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Underwater cartoon: Pretentious, moi?

Here's a cartoon from the February issue of Prospect, which is on your newsstands now. It's always nice to be in Prospect as it's an elegantly designed magazine. The cartoons are mostly in colour and are well presented.

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