Ray Gravell illustration for Frank Keating's column, Guardian Sport 6/11/07










Joe Hardstaff illustration for Frank Keating's column, Guardian Sport 9/10/07










Steve McClaren illustration for Frank Keating's column, Guardian Sport 14/09/07










Arjen Robben illustration in The Guardian Sport 7/02/06






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I am a sports cartoonist, specialising in pictures of footballers with very short legs (or, in some cases, no legs at all). This website has a selection of my work - now mainly done in Adobe Illustrator with the odd piece in Flash, pen and ink, collages, watercolours or acrylic - from the last four or five years.

Most of my sports stuff is for the football magazine When Saturday Comes, and the odd piece in The Guardian sports pages. I've had regular cartoons in the sports sections of both The Observer and The Express and produced icons and web animation for The Guardian and WSC. I now supply weekly mobile phone football graphics to Edpic.com.

My illustrations have appeared on book jackets for the Always Next Year anthology series and the most recent edition of Mike Marqusee's Anyone But England. I also illustrated the Philosophy Football books, by Mark Perryman.

While at WSC I produced the occasional football t-shirt, such as 'Gol!' and 'I Live for Footy!'. For years my ambition has been to run a thriving t-shirt business. I used to run a hand painted t-shirt stall on Portobello Market and I still fantasise about throwing away my computer and buying a new screen/potato printing kit.

• In 1995 I was nominated for the Cartoon Arts Trust Sports Cartoonist of the Year award.
• In 1994 I published a cartoon book called The Armchair Guide to Football.
• In 1981, when I won the Most Improved Player of the Year award at the Rasen Wanders U16s FC annual dinner. Still the highpoint of my career.

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