Peter Maddocks, cartoonist (1928 -2024)

Peter Maddocks

The English cartoonist Peter Maddocks died in Malaga (Spain) on 20 November. It was his son, Guy Maddocks, who announced the death on his Facebook account with a long message. I post this here simply because many of my/our friends are scattered across the world and I know they would want to know

Matthew Pritchett, Matt

Matthew Pritchett, Matt

Matthew Pritchett, who signs as Matt, was born on 14 July 1964. He studied design and illustration for four years at the St Martin's School of Art he studied design and illustration for four years at the London School of Art, where he met Pascale Smets, whom he later married. Film Cameraman Matt

Biography, Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón (Quino)

Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón (Quino)

These biographies are written using only references taken from interviews and information published by the authors themselves on their official pages or channels. The links consulted for their elaboration are added at the bottom. If you find any errors, you can report them here. Next month it will be two years since Quino's disappearance, so I've

Remembering Art Young

Remembering Art Young

Art Young. Photo: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Arthur Henry Young (Illimois, 1866), better known as "Art Young", was one of the most widely recognised and followed cartoonists of the golden age of American radicalism. Young enrolled at the Chicago Academy of Design in 1884, where he studied under J. H.

Gahan Wilson, between humour and dementia

Gahan Wilson, between humour and dementia

At the beginning of January this year Gahan Wilson announced that he was retiring, less than a month before his 89th birthday. It is said that cartoonists never retire, but in Gahan's case it was inevitable. He suffers from advanced dementia. In March his wife, the writer Nancy Winters, née Nancy Dee Midyette,