British Cartoon Archive - biographies

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

Andrzej Krauze was born in a suburb of Warsaw on 7 March 1947. In 1967 he began studying painting and...

Andy Davey was born in London in 1956. He trained as a research chemist, but became a professional caricaturist and...

Barry Fantoni was born in London on 28 February 1940, the son of Peter Fantoni, an Italian-born painter. Educated at...

Charles Griffin was born in Ruislip, Middlesex, on 20 May 1946, the son of Alec Griffin, a furniture manufacturer’s agent....

Chris Duggan studied visual arts in London before becoming a cartoonist. He worked for the New Statesman and the New...

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

David Smith was born in Leeds on 7 March 1955, and educated at Gotts Park Secondary School. With the help of a...

David Haldane was born on 10 November 1954 in Blyth, Northumberland, and studied graphic design at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic. After...

David Smith was born in Kings Lynn, Norfolk in 1943, and studied at both St Martin’s School of Art and...

Gary Barker was born in Fleetwood, Lancashire in 1963. He trained as a geologist and later as an environmental...

After leaving art college, Geoff Thompson worked for ten years at Westland Helicopters before turning to full-time cartooning in...

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...

Ingram Pinn was born in Bristol in 1950, and studied Fine Art at Camberwell School of Art before working as...

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

John Kent was born on 21 June 1937 in Oamaru, New Zealand, the son of R.C.H. Kent of the...

Born in Guildford, Surrey, on 13 August 1949, John Minnion is largely self-taught as an artist. In the early...

John Sewell contributed to the Sunday Times in...

Jonathan Pugh was born in Worcester on 17 February 1962, the son of John Mervyn Cullwick Pugh, a Bromsgrove solicitor....

Kate Charlesworth was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, in 1950. Educated at Wombwell High School, Barnsley, from 1961 to 1968,...

Ken Cox is an illustrator who studied at Harrow College of Art from 1960 to 1967, and at the...

Kenneth Mahood was born in Belfast on 4 February 1930, claiming to have been brought up “in a religious community...

Ken Pyne was born in London on 30 April 1951, the son of John Ernest Pyne, a boot-repairer. Self-taught,...

Mark Boxer was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, on 19 May 1931, the son of Steven Boxer, an army officer....

Melville “Mel” Calman was born in Stamford Hill in London on 19 May 1931. His father, Clement Calman, was a...

Merrily Harpur was educated at Headington School, Oxford, and Trinity College, Dublin. After a period restoring oil paintings she...

Mike Williams was born in Liverpool on 24 February 1940, he attended Quarry Bank Grammar School. A self-taught artist,...

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

Neil Bennett (‘NB’) was born in Warsop, Nottinghamshire, on 13 January 1941, the son of Stanley Bennett, a headmaster....

Paul Michael Thomas was born in Radlett, Hertfordshire, on 3 November 1961. His parents took the Daily Telegraph, and...

Peter Ellis gained a degree in architecture, and worked for several London architectural practices, before returning to illustration, which...

Peter Brookes was born in Liverpool on 28 September 1943, the son of RAF Squadron leader G. H. Brookes....

Ralph Steadman was born in Wallasey, Cheshire, on 15 May 1936, the son of Lionel Raphael Steadman, a commercial...

Ranan Lurie was born on 26 May 1932 in Port Said, Egypt. He was educated at Herzelia College, Tel Aviv,...

Richard Cole was born on 19 August 1942 in Wimbledon, London, the son of Archibald George Cole, an ecclesiastical...

Richard Willson was born in London on 15 May 1939, the son of an importer of bone and horn....

Robert Thompson was born in Burton Pidsea, Yorkshire, on 21 July 1960, the son of Wildon Thompson, a groundsman....

Steve Fricker was born in London in 1952. He attended Holland Park Comprehensive school and gained a BA in...