About Me
don't come calling before 1pm as I won't be awake
I was born in Palestine, where my Norwich father, who was in the colonial police, met my Polish mother. I grew up in Beccles, attending the Sir John Leman school. I attended art school in Lowestoft then the Central School of Art in London, but I never completed the course. (Because I spent most of my time asleep in the day)
It was while I was working as a night watchman for a paper mill in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire that I got into cartoon work. An old school friend from Beccles met me and said he remembered my doodles from school. I had a connection with a lady working for a publishing firm, so I started doing cartoons for a cookery firm, and picked up odd jobs. I did a couple of double-paged spreads for Punch Magazine, which was a big thing at the time –one was on prison overcrowding in 1980.” I also did some hand animation for a firm called Richard Williams Ltd in London. “They did a lot of adverts for Ford and Esso and others. And I worked on an animated film, A Christmas Carol, which is shown on TV a lot. After I left, the firm was involved in the Hollywood blockbuster, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” |