Dave Brown (cartoonist)

Dave Brown (born December 4, 1957 in Barnehurst, London ) is a British cartoonist .

Life

Dave Brown is the son of a teacher. He studied painting at Leeds University from 1976 to 1980 and worked after graduation as an art teacher at the Strathcona Social Education Center in Wembley until 1983 . During this time he published his first cartoons in a local magazine. Brown then tried his hand at a freelance painter. In 1989 he won a Sunday Times political cartoon award and has worked as a cartoonist for the press ever since.

Since 1996 he has been a political cartoonist for the daily newspaper The Independent and has also published sports cartoons in the Daily Express and Mail on Sunday , as well as cartoons on various topics in The Guardian , The Scotsman , New Statesman , Sunday Times, Prospect , Economist and Financial Times .

Brown describes himself as a "visual journalist". He works with pen and ink, sometimes with watercolors, on Bristol paper or on paper. As a cartoonist, he needs faces with striking features. His historical role model is James Gillray . Contemporary caricaturists he cherishes are the Guardian illustrator Les Gibbard , who died in 2010, and Ralph Steadman .

Ariel Sharon after Goya
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Link to the picture (please note copyrights )

His contributions sometimes cause controversy, also in the newspaper's own editorial team. His Sharon cartoon , published in the Independent, was publicly criticized in 2003 and was brought before the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), which, however, rejected the complaint in the interests of press freedom.

Brown relies on the enlightenment power of his caricatures by showing Kaiser not only without clothes , but also with a small penis. He repeatedly struck a cigarette to the State Secretary for Health, John Reid , after he had campaigned for an anti-smoking campaign .

Brown was named Cartoonist of the Year by the Cartoon Art Trust in 2002. In 2003, his Sharon cartoon won Political Cartoon of the Year .

Article (selection)

• Satire or Antisemitism? The Cartoonist Writes , The Independent, Jan 31, 2003, p. 6
• Mightier than the sword , The Independent, June 18, 2008, Extra p. 2
• I'm pleased when they hate how I draw them , The Independent, January 26, 2009, p. 12
• We've only just begun to value his genius , The Independent, December 16, 2009, p. 14

literature

• Mark Bryant: Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists . Ashgate, Aldershot, 2000 ISBN 978-1-351-78609-6 , pp. 39f.

Web links

• Dave Brown , at the British Cartoon Archives
• Dave Brown , at The Independent

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ciar Byrne: Independent cartoon cleared of anti-semitism , The Guardian, May 22, 2003
2. ^ "Independent" cartoonist wins award . Message, in: Independent, November 27, 2003