Private Eye: A Cartoon History

Nick Newman’s must-buy cartoon compilation is out today, I’ve just finished looking through it and it’s wonderful, although it bafflingly contains quite a few cartoons not by me. Rush out and get it for everyone you know for Christmas. It has little thumbnail biogs of lots of cartoonists which reveal a mass history of illness, alcoholism and suicide, so hurrah for the cartooning life and I’ll pour myself another absinthe. There’s even a photo of me on the Day I Wore A Tie, an event not often seen.

Plenty of my cartoons are inside, including the now-legendary Elephant Man joke, so you can rush out for another chance to laugh hysterically at that one all over again, or just look at where it’s published somewhere else on this blog-thingy. All cartoons available for sale; if the original’s sold I can knock up a redraw, price still a remarkable £100, just send a cheque to the address on this site. What else can you get for £100 these days? Nothing, that’s what, except maybe the entire Eurozone economy, so get those cheques written NOW you lucky lucky people, and make me slightly less skint than I am.