Tell us your story:

I've loved cartooning since I was a kid. Raised by two artists, who themselves came from artistic families, so I suppose I'm carrying on the family tradition. Worked for a while in advertising as a graphic designer, but most of my designs had something of a cartoonish theme, so switched to cartooning and illustration full-time in the early 'nineties. This I consider a good decision.

Hometown:

Lancaster, UK

Personal Website:

http://www.teamsputnik.co.uk/blog

Portfolio Site:

http://www.teamsputnik.co.uk/blog

About Me:

UK-based cartoonist with a lifelong interest in animation, although I actually work in comics. Regularly published in US, UK, Italy and Luxembourg (listed in descending order of GNP). Works with partner Antonella Caputo as TEAM SPUTNIK.

Favorite Cartoons:

Rugrats, Morph and anything and everything done by Aardman since then, Jamie and His Magic Torch, Chorlton and the Wheelies, Out of the Inkwell, Felix the Cat, Rocko's Modern Life, Samurai Jack, Dexter's Laboratory, Stressed Eric, anything John Krickfalusi had a hand in, Men in Black, The Big Snit, The Cat Came Back, The Monk and the Fish.

Favorite Films:

My Neighbour Totoro, Il Porco Rosso, Laputa Castle in the Sky, Gulliver's Travels (Fleischer), Akira, Roujin Z, Pinoccio (Disney), Forbidden Planet, Institut Benjamenta, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Ice Age, The Incredibles, Immortal (Bilal).

Favorite TV Shows:

Doctor Who, Star Trek (not Enterprise), The Lost Room, Mock the Week, QI, Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis.

Favorite Comics:

Anything by Hunt Emerson, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, RAW (Speigelman), Batman (Miller), Asterix, Gaston la Gaffe, Lupo Alberto, but that's just this week ~ I couldn't list them all or I'd be here all day!

Favorite Books:

War and Peace, Kleinzeit, every other book in the Discworld series, most books written by Iain M Banks, The Canterville Ghost, Siddhartha, Trout Fishing in America, I Heard the Owl Call My Name.

Favorite Artists or Illustrators:

Hunt Emerson, Art Speigelman, Peter de Seve, Miguelanxo Prado, Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Enki Bilal, Frank Hampson, Don Lawrence, Frank Bellamy, Frank Miller, Chagall, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rubens, Hans Bellmer, Marc Rothko, Monet.

Favorite Music:

Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Stones, Beethoven, Chopin, Arvo Part, Steve Reich, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Professor Longhair.

Favorite Robots:

Robbie (in his Lost In Space years - in Forbidden Planet I thought he was a bit snooty).