About Her Majesty

70 years reign of Elizabeth II in cartoons

In February 1952, Elizabeth Windsor acceded to the crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Commonwealth countries. Winston Churchill was Prime Minister and the world was recovering from the World War II.

In the year 2022, Elizabeth II celebrates 70 years of reign. Boris Johnson is Prime Minister and the world is recovering from a pandemic while a new war has broken out.

« We are the Champions, my friends, » as Peter Schrank’s cartoon points out, when, on the occasion of her 60th year on the throne, he makes the Queen sing Queen in a royal rock band. She is certainly a champion, having now surpassed the longevity of the reigns of Elizabeth I and Victoria. She who in 70 years has seen 14 prime ministers, assisted to multiple weddings, endured a few divorces, faced a tragic death, resisted Covid, lost her beloved husband. And at the noble age of 96, she has just inaugurated a London Underground line named after her.

What better medium than press cartoons to evoke these years of reign? As an essential vector of current events, press cartoons provide snapshots of a given moment. Thus, from 1962, the date of the first cartoon exhibited, to the present day, the life of Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family unfolds from room to room. The artists’ gaze guides us, attached to recurring details, such as the spider’s web evoking Prince Charles’ desperate waiting to accede to the throne someday, or the corgis, the Queen’s faithful dogs, whose mischievousness opposes the seriousness of the royal function.

There are few, if any, press cartoons about the Queen before her coronation and not many for a few years afterwards. In the earliest cartoons showing her, she is mainly shown from behind, sitting or reading a newspaper. The Crown is respected, with a focus on Prince Philip. Over the years, the caricature of the Queen has evolved, becoming harsher around the time of Diana’s death, when the monarchy was weakening. Deference returns in the 2010s. Could it be the influence of the TV show « The Crown », which has generated popular goodwill towards Her Majesty? It’s hard to say, especially since 2021 marks a new « annus horribilis » after the famous one in 1992.

On the occasion of this Platinum Jubilee, as well as the broadcast of the final season of « The Crown » scheduled for November, la Maison du Dessin de Presse has gathered together 140 cartoons by over fifty cartoonists, mainly British. Among them, we would like to commend Peter Schrank, a Swiss artist who has become a reference in the world of British cartoonists, and who gave his full support to this exhibition.

Enjoy your stay in our revisited Buckingham Palace and as the Sex Pistols sang, « God Save The Queen ».

In the first cartoons, the Queen is often depicted from behind or sitting quietly reading the newspaper. The satirical aspect is then focused on Prince Philip

Trog / 28.12.1962 / New Statesman ©Wally Fawkes

A parliamentary committee has recommended that peers should be allowed to renounce their titles.

Trog / 17.04.1964 / New Statesman ©Wally Fawkes

Writer and former MI6 man, known for his writings on Russia and his radical views, Malcolm Muggeridge has resigned from the Garrick Club, which has been home to many writers such as Charles Dickens and HG Wells.

Trog / 23.05.1965 / The Observer ©Wally Fawkes

The royal couple during one of their tours.

Trog / 24.04.1966 / The Observer ©Wally Fawkes

On 21 April 1966, the opening of the parliamentary session was televised for the first time.

The Churchill couple watch the Queen make her traditional opening speech.

Trog / 23.06.1968 / The Observer ©Wally Fawkes

On 20 June, Lord Salisbury was involved in an accident during a debate on Rhodesia. On 21 June the Gold Cup is awarded at Ascot (a famous horse race). Trog joins the two pieces of information.

In the 1970s, the image of the Queen was still one of respect. She is portrayed upright, serious or smiling when protocol demands it.

Trog / 15.12.1970 / Daily Mail ©Wally Fawkes

On 15 December, the government decides to set up a commission of enquiry into the electricity workers’ pay dispute. The unions rescind their ban on assembly line work and overtime.

Paul Rigby / 23.02.1970 / The Sun ©News Licensing

On 16 February 1970, Pietro Annigoni delivered his portrait of the Queen, almost 2.5 metres high, a portrait expected to be as controversial as his famous painting of fifteen years before. The portrait was unveiled on 25 February in the presence of the Queen. At the same time, Prince Charles joined the Navy.

Trog / 17.10.1971 / The Observer ©Wally Fawkes

On 14 October, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Anne were in Iran for the celebration of the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian monarchy. On 15 October, the Queen spoke with lorry drivers at a transport café on the merits of motorways. She was also driven along parts of the M62 and M61 for an official opening ceremony.

Paul Rigby / 24.03.1970 / ©News Licensing

On 23 March, John Lennon revealed in an interview published in the newspaper L’Express that the Beatles had smoked marijuana in the toilets of Buckingham Palace while waiting to be appointed to the Order of the British Empire in 1965.

At the time, Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were on a royal tour of New Zealand.

Paul Rigby / 6.05.1970 / The Sun ©News Licensing

Charles returns from the beach while Philip and Princess Anne are in bikinis on the palace balcony.

Donato / 1973 / Toronto Sun

In the summer of 1973, Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Canada and met Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Prime Minister and father of the two-year-old Justin Trudeau. The same Justin Trudeau, elected Prime Minister of Canada in 2015, travels to London to meet…Queen Elizabeth II, as recounted in Bado’s drawing below.

Paul Rigby / 3.08.1973 / The Sun ©News Licensing

Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips honeymoon on the Royal Yacht Britannia in the Caribbean on 2 August 1973 after their wedding in November.

Trog / 16.04.1975 / The Observer ©Wally Fawkes

Before the major miners’ strikes under Margaret Thatcher (1984-85), Britain had strikes in 1972 and 1974.

Stanley Franklin / 28.06.1976 / The Sun ©News Licensing

According to one article, Philip took a horse remedy to continue playing polo.

Trog / 6.02.1977 / The Observer ©Wally Fawkes

The royal circus depicted here includes Prince Philip leading successive prime ministers: Winston Churchill (1952-55), Anthony Eden (1955-57), Harold McMillan (1957-63), Alec Douglas-Home (1963-64), Harold Wilson (1964-70/74-76)), Edward Heath (1970-74), James Callaghan (1976-79)

Then came the 1980s and the first tensions. Who to marry Charles to? How to accept Fergie? How to deal with Maggie?

George Haddon / 1.01.1984 / Melbourne Herald ©Haddon

The Queen and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had a notoriously complicated relationship. The Queen strongly disapproved of Thatcher’s refusal to impose sanctions on South Africa during Apartheid.

Stanley Franklin / 25.04.1978 / The Sun ©News Licensing

Charles skateboards in the corridors of Buckingham.

Stanley Franklin / 1.04.1986 / The Sun ©News Licensing

Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew were married on 23 July 1986. Andrew proposed in Scotland on 19 February 1986.

Gable / 23.08.2012 / The Globe and Mail

Naked photos of Prince Harry cavorting with a woman in a Las Vegas hotel suite have been leaked by the website TMZ.com.

Christian Adams / 21.08.2012 / Daily Telegraph ©Telegraph Media Group Limited 2022

« …Owners of dangerously out-of-control dogs in a public place face up to 18 months in prison, and two years in exceptional cases. Courts will also be encouraged to ban irresponsible owners from owning dogs, order dangerous dogs to be put down and arrange compensation for victims… » Daily Telegraph

Christian Adams / 9.05.2013 / Daily Telegraph ©Telegraph Media Group Limited 2022

Sir Alex Ferguson announced on May 8, 2013 that he was stepping down as manager of Manchester United football club.

Burki / 04.04.2014 / 24 heures ©Burki

The Queen is received by Pope Francis.

Christian Adams / 16.09.2014 / Daily Telegraph ©Telegraph Media Group Limited 2022

The referendum for Scotland’s withdrawal from the UK on 18 September 2014 stands at 55.3% of the votes cast for the no side against 44.7% for the yes side.

Although she has no political role, nor is she expected to give her opinion, the Queen is still the head of state and often thinks no less.

Dave Brown / 28.05.2015 / The Independent

« The Queen’s speech may not be known for being a source of amusement, but it caused a stir on the internet today when Her Majesty mentioned the phrase « psychoactive drugs ». The Queen referred to the substances as she announced the new Conservative government’s plan to crack down on ‘legal drugs’. » The Independent

Alex / 9.09.2015 / La Liberté

Elizabeth II, 90 this April 21, broke the record for longevity on the English throne on September 9, 2015.

Dave Brown / 10.09.2015 / The Independent

Threats of a terrorist attack by Daech loom over the Queen and Charles.

Mayes / 9.09.2015 / The Edmonton Sun

Elizabeth II, 90 this April 21, broke the record for longevity on the English throne on September 9, 2015.

Dave Brown / 9.10.2015 / The Independent

Jeremy Corbin is elected leader of the Labour Party on 12 September 2015, becoming leader of the official opposition until April 2020.

Diplomatic relations can be complicated, and even things that have been kept secret can resurface without warning.

Bado / 26.12.2015 / Le Droit

Visiting London, Justin Trudeau, elected Prime Minister of Canada on November 4, 2015, meets the Queen… for the second time, the first being with his father in 1973. « She was very tall, that’s how small I was at the time, » he recalled in a statement issued by his office.

Chappatte / 24.04.2016 / New York Times ©Chappatte

The Queen turns 90 and Prince dies on 21 April 2016, the same day.

Swen / 23.04.2016 / Schweiz am Wochenende

The Queen celebrates her 90th birthday on 21 April 2016.

Christian Adams / 12.05.2016 / Daily Telegraph ©Telegraph Media Group Limited 2022

Queen Elizabeth II of England found some Chinese officials « very rude » to the British ambassador to China during President Xi Jinping’s state visit last October. In a video broadcast on Wednesday 11 May by the BBC and filmed the day before during a garden party at Buckingham Palace, she exchanges a few words with Lucy D’Orsi, commander of the London Metropolitan Police, who was in charge of security during the visit.

The policewoman explained to the Queen that the visit of the Chinese head of state had been « a rather difficult time » and recounted how several members of the delegation had left a meeting announcing that « the visit was over ». The Queen nods and adds her reaction, although she never makes political or diplomatic comments in public. The passage was censored in China’s news media, the BBC said.

Simon Ellinas / mai 2016 / unpublished

According to CNN.com, the Queen was filmed saying that Chinese officials were « very rude » during President Xi Jinping’s first state visit to the UK in October 2015. The cartoon refers to Prince Philip’s remark about « slanty eyes » during his visit to China in 1986. Philip told British students that they might get « slant eyes » if they stayed in China, referring to the Chinese saying that young people who stay too long in the West can get « round eyes ». His joke caused an outcry in the UK, but not in China. British newspapers ran the headlines « Philip has it all wrong » and « The Great Wally of China ».

Brexit is on every tongue and in every media outlet. What does the Queen think? If she’s not to be seen to be doing anything, everyone has an opinion on the matter.

Peter Schrank / 12.06.2016 / The Mail on Sunday ©Peter Schrank

The British people vote on Brexit on 23 June 2016. The result is 51, 9% for leaving the EU, 48.1% against.

KAK /  20.06.2016 / L’Opinion ©KAK

The British people’s vote on Brexit takes place on 23 June 2016. The result is 51, 9% for leaving the EU, 48.1% against.

Christian Adams / 18.05.2016 / Daily Telegraph ©Telegraph Media Group Limited 2022

The Queen makes her traditional opening speech to parliament on the European Union.

In November 2017 a major investigation into tax havens by a consortium of journalists was published. Elizabeth II is among the personalities revealed to have hidden money.

Peter Schrank / 7.11.2017 / The Guardian ©Peter Schrank

The Paradise Papers reveal that Queen Elizabeth is involved in tax evasion.

Vincent / 8.11.2017 / Le Courrier

The Paradise Papers reveal that Queen Elizabeth is involved in tax evasion.

David Rowe / 5.03.2018 / Financial Australian Review

Article on the sacking of Australian Prime Minister Edward Gough Whitlam and letters between the Queen and Governor-General Sir Robert Kerr. Excerpt:

« As far as the Queen is concerned, the more interesting question is what Whitlam said to her when he telephoned her after his dismissal. Intriguing hints have been made about this conversation. The Queen’s Private Secretary, Sir Martin Charteris, speaking two years later to Sir Paul Hasluck about the sacking, asked Hasluck what he would have done, had he been in Charteris’s place, and whether Whitlam had ‘picked up the phone first’ in calling the Queen. He then stated that Whitlam had indeed phoned the Queen. Did he ask the Queen to intervene and sack Kerr? It may be that the only person who asked for British intervention was Whitlam himself. »

Zemp / 2017

The cartoonist had fun imagining the Queen picking up poop from her corgis.

Swen / 8.11.2017 / Handelzeitung

The Paradise Papers reveal that Queen Elizabeth is involved in tax evasion.

Vincent / 10.11.2017 / Vigousse

The Paradise Papers reveal that Queen Elizabeth is involved in tax evasion.

The budding relationship of Meghan Markle, star of the series « Suits », and Harry, thanks to a mutual friend in 2016, quickly interested the paparazzi. The couple announced their engagement in November 2017 and the wedding took place on 19 May 2018 in Windsor.

Swen / 15.05.2018 / Aargauer Zeitung

The wedding of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle took place on 19 May 2018 at St George’s Chapel in Windsor.

Ben Jennings / 19.05.2018 / The i Newspaper

The wedding of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle took place on 19 May 2018 at St George’s Chapel in Windsor.

Peter Schrank / 19.05.2018 / Basler Zeitung ©Peter Schrank

The wedding of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle took place on 19 May 2018 at St George’s Chapel in Windsor.

Debuhme / 25.05.2018 / Vigousse

The wedding of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle took place on 19 May 2018 at St George’s Chapel in Windsor.

The TV show « The Crown », created by Peter Morgan, debuts on Netflix on 4 November 2016. The fifth season is expected in November 2022. Her Majesty is said to have watched several episodes, on the recommendation of her youngest son, Edward and his wife Sophie, who are fans of the series.

Steve Bright / 21.04.2019 / The Sun

The series « The Crown », created by Peter Morgan, debuts on Netflix on 4 November 2016. The fifth and final season will air in November 2022. According to the Sunday Express, Her Majesty watched several episodes at parties hosted by her youngest son Edward and his wife Sophie « who love the series ». Close sources report that she did not like the way Philip is portrayed in season 2.

Goddard / décembre 2019

The royal family performs memes at their Sandringham residence where they spend all their Christmases.

DuBus / 22.11.2019 / La Libre

The cartoon alludes to the scandal facing Prince Andrew.

Unable to resolve Britain’s exit from the EU, Theresa May will leave her post to Boris Johnson, a new ally for US President Donald Trump.

Chappatte / 30.03.2019 / New York Times

March 29, 2019 marks the final setback for Prime Minister Theresa May in her negotiations with the EU over Brexit. She resigns on 7 June.

Ben Jennings / 01.06.2019 / The i Newspaper

This cartoon was produced just before Trump’s state visit to the UK in 2019 and was a comment on the state of UK politics at the time post-Brexit. The coin ride bus they’re in was based on the infamous ‘Brexit bus’ that was used during the EU referendum campaign by Vote Leave, which came to symbolise the dishonesty of the promises made by those who persuaded the electorate to leave the EU. There’s also a hint of former Prime Minister Theresa May in the bin with her famous leopard print shoes poking out, whose leadership had been destroyed by Brexit. The characters except the person on the far-right (literally) with the cigarette and beer is Nigel Farage – who was a key figure in the Brexit referendum and a Trump sycophant.

Patrick Blower / 3.06.2019 / The Telegraph ©Telegraph Media Group Limited 2022

Donald Trump is received at Buckingham Palace where he makes several blunders.

Swen / 4.06.2019 / Aargauer Zeitung

Donald Trump is received at Buckingham Palace where he makes several blunders.

MacKay / 24.07.2019 / The Hamilton Spectator

Boris Johnson is elected prime minister on 23 July 2019. The Brexit date is finally set for 31 January 2020 after three prior dates (29 March, 12 April and then 31 October).

Ben Jennings / 31.08.2019 / The i Newspaper

Boris Johnson is elected prime minister on 23 July 2019.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex dropped a bombshell in January 2020 when they announced their desire to live independently of the crown, including financially. Harry said he could no longer stand the « toxicity of the British press ».

Ben Jennings / 11.01.2020 / The i Newspaper

Harry and Meghan decide to leave the UK for the US. In February 2021, they lose their remaining titles, except for that of Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Peter Schrank / 12.01.2020 / Business Post

Harry and Meghan decide to leave the UK for the US. In February 2021, they lose their remaining titles, except for Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Ben Jennings / 13.01.2020 / The Guardian

Harry and Meghan decide to leave the UK for the US. In February 2021, they lose their last titles, except for that of Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Bénédicte / 17.01.2020 / Vigousse

Harry and Meghan decide to leave the UK for the United States. In February 2021, they lose their last titles, except that of Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

In December 2020, the UK is the first country in Europe to launch its vaccination campaign. The Queen and Prince Philip are among those prioritised.
A few months later, Megan and Harry, living in California, gave Oprah Winfrey a « truthful » interview, which was not to the liking of the royal family.

Chappatte / 9.12.2020 / Le Temps ©Chappatte

The Queen is vaccinated against Covid-19.

Caro / 13.12.2020 / Le Matin Dimanche

The Queen is vaccinated against Covid-19.

Alex / 9.03.2021 / La Liberté

On 7 March 2021, Meghan and Harry are interviewed at length by Oprah Winfrey in Santa Babara, California. Among other things, Meghan criticises the crown and the racist comments made by a member of the royal family about the skin colour of their next child.

Caro / 14.03.2021 / Le Matin Dimanche

On 7 March 2021, Meghan and Harry are interviewed at length by Oprah Winfrey in Santa Babara, California. Among other things, Meghan criticises the crown and the racist comments made by a member of the royal family about the skin colour of their next child.

Christian Adams (1966)
Christian Adams was born in Warlingham, Surrey, on 10 June 1966. He later recalled that waiting for the weekly comic to be delivered to his house was « one of the most vivid memories I have from childhood ». Adams began working as a cartoonist in 1987, and from 1994 to 2002 was staff Features Cartoonist at the London Evening Standard.  » As a freelancer Adams noted in 1999 that « my hands are my most important asset – they are insured for £60,000. » Since 2005 Adams has worked in various sections of the Daily Telegraph, and is their regular Political Cartoonist on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. Adams hopes that his cartoons will make readers laugh and think.

In March 2012 Adams gave a list in his blog of “things I don’t like to draw”:

1. Shoes (Much more mechanical than you’d think)
2. Horses (Weird legs)
3. Cars (Hate them. Can’t drive)
4. « Normal » people (Because people ask « who’s that meant to be? »)
5. Detailed room backgrounds (Boring, and usually unnecessary)
6. Boris Johnson (Strange mix of jelly and straw. Bleugh)
7. Cars (Did I mention cars?)
8. The Houses of Parliament (Tedious architectural details)
9. Clouds (What am I, a painter?)
10. Cars…

Rupert Besley
“I’ve worked full-time as a freelance cartoonist for 40 years. Much of my work has been with book illustration and postcards, but my cartoons have appeared in other places – from bus timetables to beermats and death-by-Powerpoint presentations.”

Patrick Blower (1959)
Patrick Blower was born in Brussels on 10 January 1959, the son of Michael Blower, an English architect. Educated at Farnham Grammar School from 1970 to 1977, Blower studied English literature at University College, London, from 1978 to 1981. He then spent two years in New York, from 1982 to 1984, « trying to make it as an artist » whilst working in a variety of jobs including painter and decorator, art-gallery attendant, plasterer and snack-bar worker. Twice rejected by art schools, Blower is self-taught, and his first cartoon was published in the New York East Village Eye in 1983. In 1984 Blower moved back to London and worked in advertising sales, TV production and as a painter, before turning freelance cartoonist in 1986. He collaborated to Evening Standard, Daily Express and now he is cartoonist for Daily Telegraph.

Brighty (Steve Bright, 1959)
Brighty is one of the UK’s most successful, prolific and diverse cartoonists, having worked in the cartoon business full time since the day he left school as an 18-year old. He has produced artwork of the highest quality for a huge variety of publications, from The Sunday Times to The Beano, and clients from all walks of life around the globe. Caricature has always featured prominently in Brighty’s work, and he is very highly regarded in this field, whether that be tackling detailed bespoke commissions, or working at speed, drawing the masses at live events.

Dave Brown (1957)
Dave Brown was born in Barnehurst, Kent, on 4 December 1957. Brown studied Fine Art at Leeds University from 1976 to 1980, intending to be a painter. His first cartoon appeared in the Sunday Times on 11 June 1989, and he has been a full-time cartoonist ever since. In 1996 he became political cartoonist on the Independent, and has also been a contributor to Daily Express (sports cartoons), Guardian, Scotsman, New Statesman, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday (sports cartoons), Prospect, Economist and Financial Times.
Brown regards himself as « a visual journalist », and his work can create controversy. In 2002 Brown was voted Cartoon Art Trust Caricaturist of the Year.

Chicane (Mark Winter)
Mark Winter is an award-winning New Zealand cartoonist, designer and film maker and his pen name, Chicane, signifies a deceptive bend. He is currently living in London. Mark has always had a penchant for travel, which oftentimes has required him to file his cartoons from afar.

Andy Davey (1956)
Andy Davey was born in London in 1956. He trained as a research chemist, but became a professional caricaturist and cartoonist in 1993, after winning a national cartoon competition on the theme of « Back to Basics », satirising John Major. Davey has contributed editorial cartoons to The Guardian, The Times and the Sunday Telegraph, and has had work published in Punch, Private Eye, Scotsman, Spectator, and New Statesman. He also worked on 2DTV, the satirical animated television programme broadcast by ITV from 2001 to 2004. In January 2009 Davey became editorial cartoonist for The Sun, providing four full-colour cartoons a week. As newspapers decline, he told one interviewer, the place of political cartooning « may well be as a radical but unpaid version on the web. »

Simon Ellinas (1958)
“I have been a cartoonist and caricaturist ever since I could hold a pencil. Teachers and fellow-pupils at schools were my first targets and I would get involved in every school/college magazine going. I didn’t last long in full time employment however and went freelance with both graphic design and cartoons and caricatures. I built up a list of clients including the Abbey National (now Santander), Pickfords Travel, Rolls-Royce, Marathon Oil and many more.
Now, I am concentrating on cartoon illustrations for newspapers and magazines and caricatures as gifts and an on-the-spot, live entertainment.”

Stanley Franklin (1980-2004)
Stanley Franklin was born in Bow, London. He left school in 1944, aged fourteen, and, by his own account, applied for a political cartooning job on the Evening Standard, but was informed « that a chap called David Low already held the post and intended keeping it. » Franklin’s first published cartoon appeared in the Daily Mirror, where ho worked until 1970. In 1974 he took over from Paul Rigby as Editorial Cartoonist of the Sun – celebrating the event on 4 November 1974 with a cartoon of himself bombing the Houses of Parliament. « The Sun is much bolder in approach. They have allowed me to draw cartoons which I don’t think the Mirror would have allowed me to do.” The Sun gave Franklin access to an enormous audience, reaching sales of 4 million, and a readership two or three times larger. His work was undoubtedly seen by more people than any other cartoonist of his generation. However, in 1981 Tom Johnston joined the Sun, and began to take responsibility for most of its daily cartoons. His drawings were simple and lively, but he once claimed that his reputation suffered « because my style is inconsistent »: « I do the ‘comic cuts’ type of drawing one day, and the next day, it is more illustrative. » Stanley Franklin died in Kingston-upon-Thames on 2 February 2004.

Nicholas Garland (1935)
Born in Hampstead, London. Garland graduated in 1957, and his first published drawing appeared some six years later, after he had been working as stage manager and director at the Royal Court Theatre. In March 1966 Garland joined the Daily Telegraph, being offered the job after the deputy editor saw a caricature he had drawn for The Spectator, of Richard Crossman, then Labour Minister of Housing. From 1971 to 1976 Garland also drew a weekly political cartoon for the New Statesman, and contributed to the Spectator – including colour covers. In 1986 Garland left the Daily Telegraph to be one of the founders of The Independent, where he had « a lovely office looking over Bunhill Fields ». He had freedom to draw what he liked, noting in 1988 that political cartoonists derive most of their impact from their ability to express contrasting views to the rest of the paper, with economy and impact. At the end of 1990 he decided to return to the Daily Telegraph. In 1998 Garland was awarded the OBE. « Unlike with some cartoonists, » commented Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore in 2003, « his brain is always engaged before his hand starts to work »: « His approach to his work is conceptual, as well as graphic. Garland left the Daily Telegraph in March 2011.

Clive Goddard
“I was born in Berkshire at the very beginning of the swinging sixties but managed to miss all the swinging by being at school and by being in Berkshire.
As soon as I was old enough to hold a crayon I decided I wanted to be a gag cartoonist.
At 19 I was hired by the Newbury newspaper to produce a strip that could be about any local issue so long as it wasn’t contentious or funny then a mere thirty years later I finally sold my first cartoon to a national publication. It was Private.
Since then I have had regular spots in Private Eye, the New Statesman, Zoo, Fortean Times and the Sun on Sunday. I have made appearances in most other UK publications and a few in the US (including Playboy). I have also illustrated numerous cards for Paperlink.
I’m currently chair of the PCO, married and live in Oxford with my wife and an ever diminishing number of children.”

Ben Jennings (1990)
Ben Jennings was born in Hemel Hempstead, and began cartooning at school, recalling that in his maths class he’d be “drawing scathing caricatures of his teacher instead of Venn diagrams.” He then studied art at the West Herts College in Watford from 2008-2009, and illustration at the University of Westminster from 2009-2012.
By the time he graduated he was working as a freeland cartoonist, with work published in The Guardian, The Independent, the Morning Star, and the Stool Pigeon music newspaper. In the summer of 2010 Jennings had been one of six young cartoonists invited to cover for Steve Bell and Martin Rowson at The Guardian, and in 2011 he was one of the two winners of Cartoon Idol, the search for a cartoonist run by The i, the compact sister newspaper to The Independent. He now provides the weekly cartoon for The i.

Tom Johnston (1953)
Was born in Belfast on 18 May 1953. In 1972 he enrolled at Leeds Art College, and from 1975 to 1976 studied at the University of London. His first published cartoon appeared in the Daily Mirror in 1976, and he became a full-time freelance the same year. He was also a bass guitarist in rock bands, and in 1979, while cartooning during the day, became manager of the group « The The », later joining them as bassist. In 1981 Johnston joined the Sun, and by 1989 estimated that he was producing about 32 published cartoons a week, and earning £150,000 a year. In 1992 he succeeded Franklin as Political Cartoonist on the Sun, moving to the Daily Mirror in 1996 to replace Griffin as Political Cartoonist. « Cartoonists use more brain power in a morning than most artists use in a year. »

Jonesy (Steve Jones)
“So far I’ve been been published in Private Eye, New Statesman, Prospect Magazine, Reader’s Digest, The Oldie, The Spectator, Save Our Souls, Saga, Resurgence and Ecologist, The Phoenix, London Evening Standard, Firefighter and Harvard Business Review.”

Dean Patterson
“Was born, there was a bit after that, then started drawing despite myself. Cartoonist seen in Private Eye, The Spectator, The Critic, Phoenix Magazine and others. Currently residing in Northern Ireland with empty wine bottles and a beloved hound named Peculiar. Strengths include doing handstands (though haven’t attempted one in many years), lying about doing handstands and collecting empty wine bottles. Weaknesses include drawing, handstands and writing bios.”

Paul Rigby (1924-2006)
Was born in Sandringham, Melbourne, Australia. « I thought I was going to be a Rembrandt but it was a bad time to do it then, in the 1930s. » In 1948 Rigby joined Western Australian Newspapers. Rigby’s cartoons proved very successful. They were syndicated throughout Australia, and won five Australian Walkley Awards. He became editorial cartoonist on Rupert Murdoch’s Sydney Daily Mirror, but in 1969 Murdoch was desperate to staff his newly-purchased Sun newspaper in London, and Rigby was one of the staff sent over. Murdoch’s redesigned tabloid Sun was launched on 17 November 1969, and Rigby appeared in the first issue. He was billed as « Australia’s No.1 Cartoonist », and his cartoons were printed on the editorial page. He produced an estimated 15,000 cartoons during his working life, and his drawings often included a small boy (called « The Urchin ») or a dog (known as « Bright Eyes »), hidden away in odd corners for his regular readers to find. « The function of the editorial cartoon, » he once said, « is to convince the public that they are taking themselves and the world at large far too seriously. » Rigby – known as « Riggers » to his friends – retired in 2000, moving first to Palm Beach, and then in 2003 back to Australia, where he died at his home near Perth on 15 November 2006, aged 82.

Peter Schrank (1952)
Peter Schrank was born in St Gallen, Switzerland, on 23 September 1952. Educated at Basel Art School from 1973 to 1977, he came to London in 1981. His first cartoon was published in Time Out in October 1981, and he subsequently worked for the Sunday Business Post from 1989, Basler Zeitung from 1993, and the Independent and Independent on Sunday from 1995. Schrank is often asked for the original cartoons by the politicians who feature in them, but, as he admitted in 1998, « I always feel that if the subject wants a copy, then you haven’t been doing your job properly. » According to John Walsh, « Schrank displays a Euro-Gothic approach to drawing, full of drama, spikiness and darkness »: « He is superb at conveying secrecy, guilt, and Kafka-esque atmospheres of threat. » He left Basler Zeitung in 2020.

Trog (Wally Fawkes, 1924)
Walter Ernest (« Wally ») Fawkes was born in Vancouver, Canada, on 21 June 1924, and came to England with his family in 1931. He left school in 1938, aged fourteen, with a scholarship to study at Sidcup Art School, but left after eighteen months because he could not afford to stay on. Fawkes’ pen name had its origins in the war. « We spent so much time in air raid shelters, » he later recalled, « I used to joke we in London had become troglodytes. » One of his own early jazz bands was called « The Troglodytes », and this transferred into the pseudonym « Trog ». Fawkes began contributing political cartoons to the Spectator in 1959. From 1961 to 1964 Fawkes was also an occasional contributor to Private Eye, and in 1962 he began contributing to the New Statesman. With Scarfe at the Daily Mail, Fawkes also began contributing political cartoons to the Observer, where his drawings of the Queen again caused controversy. A reader complained to the Press Council about one drawing from 1965, claiming it was « grossly discourteous to the Queen », but the complaint was rejected. At the end of 1969 Illingworth retired as the Daily Mail’s political cartoonist, recommending Fawkes as his successor. In 1971 Fawkes returned to the Observer, to draw two cartoons a week – a large political cartoon for the leader page, and a « Mini-Trog » for the front page. At the Observer the subject of the political cartoon was discussed with the editor on Friday morning, and the final version took Fawkes three or four hours to draw, for a deadline of Friday evening. Fawkes is widely admired by his fellow cartoonists. « Of all his talents, » observes Nicholas Garland, « there is none I admire more than his outstanding skill as a caricaturist ». Wally Fawkes retired from the Sunday Telegraph in June 2005, soon after celebrating his eightieth-first birthday, and following sixty-two years as a professional cartoonist.

Brandan Reynolds (1970)
Brandan Reynolds is one of South Africa’s most active and well-known cartoonists. One of his cartoons has been published in Business Day every day since 2002. He also works with the weekly Weekend Argus and Rapport, the Afrikaans Sunday newspaper.
He received the Sikuvile Journalism Award for Editorial Cartooning from the Standard Bank of South Africa in 2013.
He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

Ken Best (1969)
“I was born on 18 June 1969. I am an illustrator and comic book artist based on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. I have had my work published in local and international comic anthologies including Mad Magazine.”

George Haddon
Early years after art school spent working in a commercial art studio drawing scraper board illustrations for a major hardware retail store.
He joined The Herald newspaper in Melbourne (now the Herald-Sun)  as an editorial designer and fell into illustrating and cartooning, eventually becoming art director.
He traveled widely for The Herald in Australia and Internationally on drawing assignments before he set up a freelance graphic design and illustration studio, and continued to contribute a daily cartoon to the newspaper on a freelance basis, first a pocket sports cartoon, and then the editorial cartoon until 1987.
Each month from 1997 until 2007 the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria’s magazine ‘RoyalAuto’ featured ‘George Haddon’s Sketchbook’, a double page spread of drawings and words depicting people, places and events visited on travels with sketchbook throughout Victoria and further afield.
Awards include: the prestigious Walkley Award four times, the Australian Cartoonists’ Association Stanley Award (2004, 2006, 2007, 2008) for General and Humorous illustration.
He was voted the Australian Cartoonists’ Association  ‘Cartoonist of the Year’ in 2004.

David Rowe (1968)
David Rowe grew up in Canberra. Rowe’s father worked in the Department of Foreign Affairs and his mother worked in the Prime Minister’s Department. Rowe attended the Australian National University and initially studied economics, later studying art history and then political science, then studied graphic design at Reid TAFE, finally moving to Canberra Art School.
He has made cartoons on political issues for the Australian Financial Review. He had earlier worked for the Canberra Times as a cartoonist in the 1980s.
He regularly appears in the annual series Best Australian Political Cartoons edited by Russ Radcliffe. He is also well documented in the National Museum political cartoon inventory.
In 2013 and 2017 he was Cartoonist of the year.

Peter Sheehan
Peter Sheehan is a freelance storyboard artist, illustrator, designer and writer based in Canberra, Australia.
Versatile in style, Peter designs to fulfil the unique demands of each story – be it filmic or comic, literary or journalistic. He has some 25 books to his name and has been drawing professionally since 1982, most notably for the oldest children’s literary magazine in the world The School Magazine. He was accredited as a designer by the Australian Production Design Guild in 2017.
Peter has been awarded a CBCA Honour Book prize, an APDG Award for Drawing, a Stanley Award for Best General Illustrator, 3 FACTS Awards, 2 Art Directors and Writers Awards and has been nominated twice for a Walkley Award. His artwork is held in the collections of The Australian National War Memorial, the State Library of NSW and the Australian National Maritime Museum.

Danny Zemp (1970)
Born near Luzern on January 18, 1970.
Where do I come from? Excellent question. I say Mummy, but that doesn’t count. I grew up in Switzerland on a lake near Zürich. Lovely place. I was taught right from wrong and got pushed through the education system like everyone else. What a fun time that was. I was constantly getting into trouble with my scribbles.
Is it true that you’re an Arborist as well? How did you know? 100 point for observation. I studied Arboriculture, Viticulture and Horticulture in Switzerland and ended up with a BSc degree. It was a great school and I learnt a lot. Mostly how to annoy teachers with my drawings.
What then? Well, I had to earn some money. I started to work in some French vineyards. That was good to polish my French. It was a bit rusty. After that I moved to Hamburg and started to climb large trees. That’s where all the fun begun. I learnt a lot about ropes, harness and tree climbing techniques. I was climbing huge oak trees at minus 15 degrees centigrade.
So, how did you end up in Australia? I had a job offered here. Also climbing trees. That was great, no more pine trees, or so I thought. Pines are a pain. Eucalyptus trees are much nicer to climb. Although I found out the hard way that not all Aussie trees are fun. You probably all know the Itchy Bomb Tree? If you don’t, google it and then imagine climbing it! Not happy.
But what about your cartooning? Oh, yes. While I was climbing trees, I had to because I ended up with a mortgage, I never really lost touch with cartooning. I did a diploma course in freelance cartooning and Illustrating. Then a few years ago I had an incident at work and I couldn’t fulfil my role as arborist anymore. But I could still draw. I just had to get better at it, times have changed and to earn a buck from doodling is becoming harder. I set myself a goal and started to draw, draw, draw. Practice creates practice. I got better at it and slowly work is flowing in. These days I start affording bread once a week. Damn you, spuds!
I now draw freelance for Australian Motorcycle News, the Mountain View Mail newspaper and the odd comic magazine. I get more international customers as well. One day I can even get butter and jam. Ah, keep dreaming…”

Aislin (Terry Mosher, 1942)
Aislin is the name of Terry Mosher’s eldest daughter and the nom de plume he has used throughout his more than 50 years as a cartoonist, primarily with the English-language newspaper The Montreal Gazette.
Born November 11, 1942 in Ottawa, Ontario, Mosher attended fourteen different schools in Montreal, Toronto and Quebec City. Graduating from the École des Beaux-arts in 1967, he famously won entrance to this fine arts college (now part of UQAM) by forging his high-school graduation certificate. It’s still his favourite piece of work. Mosher worked for The Montreal Star before moving to the Montreal Gazette in 1972. Over the years, his work has appeared in numerous publications across Canada and internationally.
To date, Mosher has written or contributed to the publication of 51 books, his latest being a biography of legendary Canadian political cartoonist Duncan Macpherson.
Along with author Peter Desbarats, Terry Mosher produced an extensive history of Canadian political cartooning titled “The Hecklers”, published in 1979. A film based on the book was released by the National Film Board of Canada in 1980.
Mosher is regularly invited to speak on satire and the importance of cartooning as a communications tool. He has also served as a judge and speaker at international cartoon competitions and conferences, most recently in the United States, Portugal, Turkey, China, Australia and Cuba.
Mosher was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in May 2003 and four years later, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from McGill University. The winner of two National Newspaper Awards and a gold National Magazine Award, Mosher was inducted into the Canadian Cartoonist’s Hall of Fame in 2012.

Bado (Guy Badeaux, 1949)
Natif de Montréal, Guy Badeaux fait ses études en arts plastiques au Cégep du Vieux Montréal et séjourne un an en Europe en 1971, pour ensuite choisir définitivement le métier de dessinateur. Dans les années 1970, Bado réalise des bandes dessinées pour le magazine de bande dessinée québécoise Baloune, pour Mainmise et Le Temps Fou. Il collabore aussi aux débuts du magazine satirique Croc.
Bado commence sa carrière de caricaturiste à Montréal dans la section financière de The Gazette, la poursuit dans le cahier des arts du journal Le Devoir puis dans la page éditoriale du Jour Hebdo. En mai 1981, il déménage à Ottawa pour y travailler dans le quotidien francophone de la capitale. En 1991, il obtient un prix national canadien, le National Newspaper Awards pour le meilleur dessin éditorial publié dans l’année, représentant le premier ministre du Québec de l’époque, Robert Bourassa.
Bado aide à fonder l’Association canadienne des dessinateurs éditoriaux, en 1995, et la préside pendant cinq ans.

Andy Donato (1937)
Donato graduated from Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute and worked at Eaton’s as a layout artist. He joined the Toronto Telegram in 1961, working as a graphic artist in the promotion department. In 1968, he was appointed art director and began cartooning on a part-time basis. After The Telegram folded in 1971, he joined The Toronto Sun. In 1974, he started cartooning full-time. In 1985 and 1986, he served as president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.
He is well known among Sun readers for his signature image of a bird, « Donato’s bird. » Finding the bird, lost in the newspaper, has been a common device in Sun promotions through the years.
Some of his most famous work was done when Pierre Elliott Trudeau was Prime Minister and Joe Clark was leader of the official opposition. As the two leaders battled it out, Donato lampooned both of them extensively. For years, Joe Clark was drawn wearing children’s mittens (attached to his suit with strings), a reference to the time his luggage went missing on a trip to Israel. The final cartoon of the series appeared after Trudeau’s airplane was hit by a bus while on the tarmac. It showed a puzzled Trudeau staring at the bus while one of his aides held up Clark’s mittens and said: « We don’t know who the driver was, but we found his mittens. »
Donato formally retired from the Sun in 1997 but continues to draw for the Sun chain on a contract basis that pays him roughly $400 a cartoon.

Anthony Jenkins (1951)
He was born in Toronto, attended the U of T and the University of Waterloo, from where he graduated with a B.A. in Fine Art and English.
He worked as cartoonist, illustrator and writer at The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper for four decades and has visited 84 countries, on all continents save Antarctica.
His early newspaper background and education in old-school silkscreen and linocut are evident in a search for elegant, minimalist line, while his extended travels in the Third World engender an abiding love of dramatic colour.
He now resides in the beautiful countryside of Mono, Ontario, where he draws, paints, writes, plays hockey and keeps bees.

Brian Gable (1949)
Canadian editorial cartoonist. He studied fine art at the University of Saskatchewan, subsequently studied education at the University of Toronto, and taught art at Brockville, Ontario.
Initially freelancing as a cartoonist for The Recorder and Times in Brockville in 1977, he subsequently became full-time editorial cartoonist for the Regina Leader-Post in 1980, and then became the editorial cartoonist for The Globe and Mail in 1987. He won National Newspaper Awards in 1986, 1995, 2001 and 2005 for his work.

Graeme MacKay (1968)
Graeme MacKay grew up in Dundas, Ontario, Canada.
Once he graduated from Parkside High School in Dundas, Graeme attended the University of Ottawa majoring in History and Political Science. There he submitted cartoons, including a comic strip called Alas & Alack, to the student newspaper, The Fulcrum, and became the graphics editor.
After a 2 year working tour through Europe and North Africa he returned to Canada in 1994 and submitted cartoons to various newspapers. His work caught the eye of The Hamilton Spectator and in 1997, he was hired as a full-time editorial cartoonist.
Since then, his wit and biting cartoons have graced the pages of his hometown paper. His work regularly appears regionally, in the Niagara peninsula and southern Ontario, through Star-metroland Media, in the Niagara Falls Review, the Welland Tribune, the St. Catharines Standard, the Waterloo Region Record, and Peterborough Examiner.
Besides creating five editorial cartoons per week for the Spectator, Graeme’s work is nationally syndicated through Artizans. Through distribution his cartoons appear across the Internet and in newspapers, big and small, throughout Canada, and occasionally in the United States.
In the early 2000’s he complemented his editorial cartoon job by illustrating a local cartoon strip called Gridlock.
Between 2008 and 2010, Graeme was President of the Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists.

Malcom Mayes (1962)
Born 1962 in Edmonton. Encouraged by Yardley Jones, he studied art at Grant McEwen College, and while there started Mayes Feature Service, a company to distribute his cartoons to publications throughout Alberta, including the Calgary Herald, Lethbridge Herald, Western Report and Red Deer Advocate.
In June 1986, he became an editorial cartoonist for the Edmonton Journal. Since then his work has appeared in newspapers across Canada and in the U.S., on CBC, and Al Jazeera. He has been a principle and contributor to Artizans.com a global online distributer of cartoons and illustrations.
His work has also been displayed at the International Museum of Humour in Montréal.

Bruce McKinnon (1961)
MacKinnon was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where he attended high school and later studied arts at St. Francis Xavier University. As a youth he also lived with his family in Kingston, Ontario, and Truro and Halifax, Nova Scotia. He studied Fine Arts at Mount Allison University and graphic design at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He had not graduated from NSCAD before he began cartooning full-time.
His first paid work as a cartoonist came at the age of 14, when he began drawing a weekly cartoon for The Casket in Antigonish. In high school and university in Antigonish, he drew cartoons for the Antigonish Spectator and the Xaverian Weekly, respectively.
In 1985, MacKinnon began drawing weekly cartoons for The Chronicle Herald in Halifax, and was hired full-time in 1986, filling a gap on the paper’s editorial page that had been present ever since the retirement of its long-time cartoonist Bob Chambers in 1976. With the redesign of the Herald‘s weekend edition in April 2013, his hand-drawn font was used for all the headlines in the « Opinion » section.
Since becoming the paper’s regular cartoonist, MacKinnon has achieved status as one of Canada’s finest editorial cartoonists, called by the Canadian Encyclopedia, « among the new breed of distinguished artists » in Canadian editorial cartooning. To date he has won 18 Atlantic Journalism Awards for editorial cartooning, and six National Newspaper Awards (1992, 1993, 2013, 2014 & 2015), including the NNA inaugural Journalist of the Year award for 2014. He came in second in the World Press Cartoon competition in 2004. In 2014 he won the World Press Freedom Award and received their Honourable Mention in 2015. He also won second prize in the 2014 Niels Bugge Cartoon Award. Both a popular and at times controversial cartoonist, he was named Best Political Cartoonist in Halifax for several years running by The Coast newspaper before it elevated him to their Hall of Fame, thus retiring him from further contest.

Wes Tyrell (1965)
One time country music crooner and identical twin, Wes Tyrell enjoys the challenge of cartooning Moses Znaimer’s alter ego « Prophet of Zoom » for Zoomer magazine.
From his Toronto studio Wes has been producing humorous and biting editorial cartoons and illustrations for over twenty years. Until 2016 Wes was the principal editorial cartoonist for Yahoo! Canada online and has freelanced for clients including The Globe & Mail, Maclean’s, and the BBC.
President of the Association of Canadian Cartoonists since 2012, Wes has the honour of representing colleagues that draw for the nation’s newspapers and magazines. He successfully hosted the Association’s 2014 multinational conference in Cuba, the 2015 Ideacity cartooning free speech segment in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre and in 2016 he collected an all-star group of Pulitzer prize and NNA winning cartoonists from throughout North America for the first national convention in Toronto in twenty years.

DuBus (Férdéric du Bus, 1963)
Born in 1963, Frédéric du Bus became famous very early on in his career for drawing, which is the most logical field in which to illustrate himself. Today, he spends his time between drawings for children, a serious field if ever there was one, and political caricatures where the worst kind of childishness is tolerated, even recommended. He publishes daily in the Dernière Heure and weekly in Le Soir Magazine. As a radio commentator, he has written numerous letters and humorous articles, notably on La Première.

Pierre Ballouhey (1944)
Pierre Ballouhey, born on 24 November 1944 in Saint-Marcellin in Isère, is a French illustrator and press cartoonist. He studied at the Arts Déco in Grenoble, then at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. He worked for the France-Illustrations group, where he created numerous visuals for national campaigns for 3M and L’Oréal, among others. He also draws for various press titles, including The Guardian, Siné Hebdo and 60 millions de consommateurs. He illustrates numerous books for publishers. He also contributes to various school books published by Nathan, Larousse and Hachette, among others. He teaches press cartoons at the Émile-Cohl School in Lyon and is president of France-Cartoons, an association of French-speaking press cartoonists. He is also a member of Cartooning for Peace.

KAK (Pierre Lamassoure)
Kak joined the editorial staff thanks to the press drawing competition launched in the summer of 2013 by the daily newspaper l’Opinion. Since then, he has been illustrating the front page every day, planting his jabs at the four cardinal points of French and international politics.
His hobbies: comics, cartoons and cinema (a sector in which he worked for 20 years). He takes great pleasure in dressing up our leaders as characters from Disney, Pixar, Uderzo, Franquin, Hergé and other drawing geniuses. And he always does it with great care, true to a thought gleaned from Nietzsche: « Man’s maturity is to have rediscovered the seriousness he had at play when he was a child.
Kak is president of the Cartooning for Peace association.

Plop & KanKr (Julie Besombes and Simon Baert)
Plop & KanKr is a schizophrenic entity from the Palaise region made up of two personalities: Plop, alias Julie Besombes, and KanKr, alias Simon Baert. One of them draws and the other writes.
Using news, absurdity or stupidity, they scribble about everything, nothing and everything else, sketching current events on Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter…
They have contributed to various newspapers (Siné Mensuel, La Galipote, L’Anjou Laïque, Le Sans-Culotte 85, Le Nouveau Jour J, l’Analphabète, Même Pas Peur…) and published collections of their drawings.

Alex (1972)
Alex Ballaman has been the regular press cartoonist at the daily La Liberté in Fribourg since 2000. He did his training as a journalist there and is now, along with Herrmann at La Tribune de Genève, one of the few press cartoonists still employed by a newspaper. He participates enthusiastically in exhibitions and several collective works. In 2021, he participated in the Revue fribourgeoise.

Barrigue (1950)
His real name is Thierry Barrigue de Montvallon, born in 1950 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. He arrived in the Canton of Vaud in 1979, where his caricatures quickly delighted the readers of Le Matin until 2008, when he founded Vigousse, a satirical weekly in French-speaking Switzerland. In 2016, he handed over the editorship to Stéphane Babey. He continues to draw, in connection with his association CrayonSolidaires, created with Pitch and Sjöstedt and on social issues.

Bénédicte (1972)
Born in 1972 in Lausanne, Bénédicte Sambo took over from Burki at the daily 24 heures with Valott in 2014. She attended the Ecole de Recherche Graphique in Brussels in 1992, before returning to French-speaking Switzerland where she worked for Le Courrier. She also draws for the weekly Vigousse.

Burki (1949-2016)
Raymond Burki completed an apprenticeship as a photo retoucher in gravure printing in Lausanne, at the Imprimeries Populaires from 20 April 1965 to April 1969 before working for a year in Paris.
Back in Switzerland, Raymond Burki was employed by his former boss from 1971 to 1979. His first drawing appeared in the Tribune Le Matin in July 1976. Marcel A. Pasche noticed Raymond Burki and shortly afterwards brought him to the daily 24 heures. From 1978 onwards, Raymond Burki devoted himself exclusively to press cartoons. He also published his (witty) drawings in the magazine Bilan and in Die Sonntagszeitung.
In 1979 he married Catherine with whom he had two children, Stanislas and Quentin, born in the 1980s.
Raymond Burki has won numerous prizes: Prize for the best foreign drawing at Epinal (1988), Public Prize at Morges-sous-Rire (1989), Jean Dumur Prize (1990). He also won the Vaud Foundation Prize for the promotion and creation of art in 2003.
Raymond Burki drew his last picture for 24 heures in August 2014.
Now that he has retired, he is more occupied with his other passion, fly-fishing. The attack on Charlie Hebdo gave him the desire to draw again, where he published his drawings on his Facebook page, which resulted in a new album, Burki remets ça, released in November 2016.
Nevertheless, despite this active retirement, he died of cancer on 29 December 2016.

Caro (1972)
Caroline Rutz, born in 1972, trained as a graphic designer at the School of Visual Arts in Biel, where she still lives. In 1994, she started working as a press illustrator for the Bieler Tagblatt and later for the daily newspaper Journal du Jura. During this time, Caro also drew courtroom pictures for trials, storyboards and worked for various newspapers. From 2007 to 2017, she worked for the PME Magazine and drew for the satirical weekly Vigousse. In 2018, she resumed her regular collaboration with the Bieler Tagblatt. As of June 2020, she will publish weekly in Le Matin Dimanche.

Chappatte (1967)
Swiss cartoonist of Lebanese origin, born in Pakistan in 1967, Patrick Chappatte grew up in
Singapore and Geneva. He also lived in New York for several years. A press cartoonist for the daily newspaper Le Temps, he also delivered his drawings to the NZZ, Spiegel and the international version of the New York Times until the summer of 2019 when the New York Times decided to stop publishing news cartoons. He has since been recruited by the Boston Globe and Le Canard Enchaîné. Chappatte also devotes his time to comics reporting. He mounted an exhibition on drawings and death row at the Maison du Dessin de Presse in 2016, which had a great impact.

Debuhme (Philippe Baumann, 1984)
Born in Fribourg, he graduated from the Ecole Supérieure des Arts St-Luc in Liège. Independent since 2011, his drawings have been published in Vigousse since 2012 and in the magazine Sept.info. He collaborates with other Swiss magazines and newspapers such as La Petite Salamandre, L’Educateur and Amnesty International. He produces press drawings for La Torche 2.0 and participates in several comic book projects. His new comic book, Le goût du sang, will be published in June 2022.

Ramses (1970)
Born in 1970 in Trinidad, Cuba, Ramsés Morales arrived in Switzerland in early 2016 for love. He got married and continued his work as a press cartoonist in Cuba. From Frasnacht (Thurgau), he sends his drawings to Nebelspalter, Courrier International, Spotsk (in Denmark). In February 2019, he received the First Prize for Editorial Drawing at the World Press Cartoon in Portugal.

Swen (Silvan Wegman, 1969)
Born in Solothurn, Silvan Wegman studied at the F+F School of Art, Media and Design in Zurich. Since 1996, he has worked for several titles, such as Mitteland Zeitung, Sonntags Zeitung and Nebelspalter, as well as for Schweiz am Wochenende and Aargauer Zeitung.

Vincent (1979)
Born in 1979 in Geneva, Vincent Di Silvestro studied at the Emile Cohl School in Lyon, where he obtained a diploma in cartoon design. In 2009, he came third in the New Talents competition at the BD-Fil festival in Lausanne. In June 2010, he joined the team of the satirical newspaper Vigousse. And since 2014, he has been working for the Courrier in Geneva. In 2017, he produced, with Herrmann on the script, the comic strip Rodger, l’enfance de l’art, the sequel to which was released in June 2021. His first children’s illustration, Jean-Blaise, written by Emilie Boré, was released in May 2022.