Martin Rowson

Martin Rowson

Martin Rowson is a multi-award winning cartoonist, writer, illustrator, ranter, performer and poet. His work over the past 40 years has appeared in almost every publication you can think of apart from Private Eye and The Sun.

A former chair of the British Cartoonists Association and Cartoonist Laureate for London as well as long-standing trustee of the Zoological Society of London (serving 3 terms as vice-president), Rowson has authored over 40 books, including graphic novel adaptations of Tristram Shandy, The Waste Land, Gulliver's Travels and The Communist Manifesto, as well as a memoir, "Stuff", about clearing out his late parents' house, which was longlisted for the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction