Graham Allen is the son of the musician Clive Allen, who for ten years was Max Miller’s pianist.
In 1987 Allen became political cartoonist on Robert Maxwell’s short-lived London Daily News. By 1992 he was contributing caricatures of politicians and others to the Daily Express, and he became an established cartoonist on the paper.
Allen is also an illustrator, especially of children’s books for Ward Lock and and other publishers.