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Colin Wheeler
Born in Hindhead, Surrey, on 23 February 1938, Colin Wheeler studied at Farnham School of Art from 1954 to 1958, and at the RA Schools from 1958 to 1961. A teacher for twenty years, he had his first cartoon published in the Times Educational Supplement in 1966, admitting later that "I hit lucky first time." After that he "just sort of drifted into it": "It took me ages to accept that I could actually earn a living at it."
Wheeler has worked freelance for Private Eye, the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, New Scientist and others, and has also contributed editorial cartoons to the Independent on Sunday. Since 1986 he has produced the daily front-page pocket cartoon for the Independent, and has written a number of articles, reviews, etc., for the paper - as well as for the Daily Telegraph and others - on architecture, painting and sculpture.
In his pocket cartoons Wheeler never uses pencil, but for his larger political drawings he uses a lot of cross-hatching and graphite pencil rather than mechanical tints.
- Simon Evans "How to Draw Cartoons", The Independent, 14 November 1995, p.20.
- Mark Bryant Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2000), p.238.
- Michael Heath "How to Draw Fiends and Influence People", The Independent, 13 December 2004, pp.20-1.
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4847 originals and copies
18 unaccessioned originals
Date
Undated (fl. 1980s - present)
