CARTOONIST NICK LYONS
FREELANCE CARTOONIST
For over 20 years, newspapers’
Magazines, advertising, posters’
prints and commissions.
For over 20 years, newspapers’
Magazines, advertising, posters’
prints and commissions.
CARTOON ARTIST
Nick Lyons has been a cartoonist
for over 20 years, brought up in Alderley Edge Cheshire, England.
He started cartooning seriously at aged 11, influenced by cartoonists
Norman Thelwell, Ronald Searle, Robert Crumb, Paul Sample and
Jan Sanders and the cartoons in Private Eye and Punch.
At 14 he drew a cartoon poster of his Alderley Edge cricket club
the AECC and sold prints behind the bar, from then on he knew he
was going to be a cartoonist. At 18 he worked as a resident
cartoonist for the Publishers D.C. Thompsons in Scotland, drawing
zany cartoons for The Beano and The Dandy and many of their other
40 comics, magazines and newspapers.
Two years later he moved to Bordeaux in France working as a
freelance cartoonist doing gags for Bordeaux newspaper Sud Ouest,
local magazines, cartoons for the advertising agencies, many wine
cartoons, surf cartoons, cartoon jokes and exhibitions. It was here
when he first started hiding a frog and snail in his cartoons.
Finding work for a national magazine Lui in Paris he decided to
settle in Val d`Isere in the French Alps. Still sending work to Paris and
Bordeaux, he drew many ski cartoons, created Joe Powder, ski
posters, ski prints and sent work back to London.. The summers he
resided back on the Atlantic coast doing surf prints, wine prints, t-shirts,
newspaper gags and coming up with next winters postcards and
sweatshirt designs
After 10 years of this nomadic life he returned to London and the
south coast of England, still running to and fro back to France.
for over 20 years, brought up in Alderley Edge Cheshire, England.
He started cartooning seriously at aged 11, influenced by cartoonists
Norman Thelwell, Ronald Searle, Robert Crumb, Paul Sample and
Jan Sanders and the cartoons in Private Eye and Punch.
At 14 he drew a cartoon poster of his Alderley Edge cricket club
the AECC and sold prints behind the bar, from then on he knew he
was going to be a cartoonist. At 18 he worked as a resident
cartoonist for the Publishers D.C. Thompsons in Scotland, drawing
zany cartoons for The Beano and The Dandy and many of their other
40 comics, magazines and newspapers.
Two years later he moved to Bordeaux in France working as a
freelance cartoonist doing gags for Bordeaux newspaper Sud Ouest,
local magazines, cartoons for the advertising agencies, many wine
cartoons, surf cartoons, cartoon jokes and exhibitions. It was here
when he first started hiding a frog and snail in his cartoons.
Finding work for a national magazine Lui in Paris he decided to
settle in Val d`Isere in the French Alps. Still sending work to Paris and
Bordeaux, he drew many ski cartoons, created Joe Powder, ski
posters, ski prints and sent work back to London.. The summers he
resided back on the Atlantic coast doing surf prints, wine prints, t-shirts,
newspaper gags and coming up with next winters postcards and
sweatshirt designs
After 10 years of this nomadic life he returned to London and the
south coast of England, still running to and fro back to France.
From quick black and whites to full on detailed colour paintings.
Very early work (above) and work I did in Scotland
First painting after arriving in France
Cartoon strip for Sud Ouest a Bordeaux Newspaper.
Quite funny really because at the time I could hardly speak
French not alone write it.
Quite funny really because at the time I could hardly speak
French not alone write it.
Joke for Lui magazine Paris
First painting in Val d’ Isere
First Ski poster and the birth
of Joe Powder
of Joe Powder
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Sketch book roughs