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Polyp


Born
The United Kingdom
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Genre
Graphic Novels, Comics, Art

Influences
Bill Hicks, radical democracy, Karl Popper, cooperative movement ...more


I've been scratching 'Polyp' political cartoons since 1980 and took it up full time in the 90's, having been a care worker before then.

New Internationalist Magazine, bless 'em, gave me my first big break, turning over a whole issue to STARVE TREK, a political spoof of Captain James Knee Jerk beaming neoliberal politics down to reluctant planets throughout the galaxy. I owe them my career.

Since then I've drawn cartoons for anyone who'll have me, including Ethical Consumer Magazine, WDM, Christian Aid, War on Want, The Big Issue, Friends of the Earth, FoE, Liberty, People and Planet, Campaign Against the Arms Trade, and all the other usual suspects.

As for my politics... well... read the cartoons, chuck in some chunks of Bill Hicks, radical de ...more

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Average rating: 4.24 · 160 ratings · 35 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors
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