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About Nicholas Withycombe Garland
1964, Garland left the theatre to devote himself to a career as a cartoonist. At this time, with Barry Humphries, he 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 2011, with a break from 1986 to 1990 when he was one of the founding journalists of The Independent. 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 2012 London Olympics by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. In this role he undertook a series of drawings, woodcuts and paintings, published in the book Drawing the Games. His work is represented in the British Museum, the Museum of London, and the Ashmolean Museum.
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).
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Nicholas Withycombe Garland's Timeline
| 1935 |
September 1, 1935
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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom
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| 1966 |
1966
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| 1970 |
May 26, 1970
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London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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1972
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