Martin Rowson

Martin Rowson

A multi-award winning cartoonist, illustrator and writer.

His work has appeared regularly in The Guardian, Daily Mirror, Spectator, New Statesman, The Times and many other publications for over 30 years. His books include a memoir, “Stuff”, which was longlisted for the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize, and graphic novelisations of The Waste Land, Tristram Shandy & Gulliver’s Travels. He in currently working on a comic book version of The Communist Manifesto. As well as being chair of the British Cartoonists’ Association, he is also currently a vice-president of the Zoological Society of London. He lives with his wife in south-east London. Photo by Emyr Young

Mocking the Preposterous: The Challenges of Satirising Populism