British Cartoon Archive - biographies

Bernard Hollowood was born in Burslem, Staffordshire, on 3 June 1910. The son of Albert Hollowood, clerk and amateur...

Ben Jennings was born in Hemel Hempstead, and began cartooning at school, recalling that in his maths class he’d...

Chris Priestley was born in Hull on 25 August 1958. He was an avid reader of American comics as a...

Chris Riddell was born on 13 April 1962 in Cape Town, South Africa, where his father was an Anglican priest...

Dave Brown was born in Barnehurst, Kent, on 4 December 1957 the son of Arthur Leslie Brown, a teacher....

David Simonds was born in Pinner, Middlesex, on 18 May 1961 and after taking a one-year Foundation Course at St...

George Paterson Gale was born on 11 June 1929 in Leven, Fife. He went to a local school, and then...

Gerard Jerome Melling – known as “Ged” (pronounced Jed) – was born on 6 January 1934 in Stirling, the...

James Austin Sillavan (JAS) was born in Cheshire in 1950, and studied Advertising at Manchester Art School. He spent...

Kevin Kallaugher was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA, and took a degree in visual and environmental studies at Harvard...

Morten Morland was born in 1979 and grew up in a small town in Norway, recalling later that ‘I...

Paul Tucker trained at the London College of Printing, where he studied photography, and at Goldsmiths College, London, where...

Peter Schrank was born in St Gallen, Switzerland, on 23 September 1952. Educated at Basel Art School from 1973 to...

Roger Law was born on 6 September 1941 in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, the son of a builder. He attended Littleport...

Satoshi Kambayashi is an illustrator based in Brighton who signs himself ‘Satoshi’. He has worked as a book illustrator,...

Enzo Apicella was born on 26 June 1922 in Naples, the son of Salvatore Apicella, a local councillor. From...