Nicholas Garland
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Born | Nicholas Withycombe Garland 1 September 1935 2012 Olympic Games |
Nicholas Withycombe Garland
Early life
Garland was born in
Professional career
Theatrical and directorial roles
On leaving school, Garland joined the
In 1958 he moved to the
Career as cartoonist
In 1964, Garland left the theatre to devote himself to a career as a cartoonist. He and Barry Humphries created the Barry McKenzie comic strip in Private Eye.
Garland also worked for The Spectator and other journals. In 1966, he was appointed the first political cartoonist of The Daily Telegraph where he remained until 1986 when he was a founding journalist of The Independent. He rejoined The Daily Telegraph from 1990 until 2011. He was political cartoonist on the New Statesman during the 1970s and worked for The Spectator for many years.
In 2012, he was appointed Cartoonist of the
Exhibitions
He has exhibited woodcuts at the Fine Art Society in Bond Street, and his publications include: (illustrated) Horatius, by T. B. Macaulay (1977); An Indian Journal (1983); Twenty Years of Cartoons (1984); Travels With My Sketchbook (1987); Not Many Dead (1990); (illustrated )The Coma, by Alex Garland (2004); I Wish… (2007); Mommy, Daddy, Evan, Sage, by Eric McHenry (2011).
Honours
Garland was awarded the OBE in the 1998 New Year Honours.
Personal life
Garland's son, Tim, whose mother was the painter Margaret Evans, was born in 1957. In 1964, Garland married Harriet Crittall: their daughter, Emily was born in 1966, and the marriage was dissolved in 1968. In 1969 he married Caroline Medawar: they had two sons, writer and filmmaker Alexander (b. 1970) and high school teacher Theodore (b. 1972), before the marriage was dissolved in 1994. In 1995 he married Priscilla Roth, with whom he lives in Belsize Park, London.
References
- ^ "Birthdays". The Guardian. Guardian News & Media. 1 September 2014. p. 29.
External links
- Personal site displaying cartoons and fine-art work
- Biography of Garland at the British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent