![]() ![]() Chris Priestley has also written for radio, contributing two stories to the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2 lieutenant’s Grimm Up North collection of Brothers Grimm updates, transmitted on Christmas Eve 2012.Ĭhris Priestley is an award-winning British children"s book author and illustrator.Ĭhris Priestley grew up in Wales and Gibraltar, where as a nine-year-old, he won a medal in a local newspaper’s story-writing competition. His paintings have been widely exhibited, most recently at the Eastern Open and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, both in 2013. From 1990 to 1996 he was a weekly cartoonist on The Economist and from 1996 to 1998 a daily cartoonist on The Independent. ![]() ![]() He has produced several strip cartoons - ‘Bestiary’ for The Independent on Sunday (with Chris Riddell), ‘Babel’ for The Observer, ‘7:30 for 8:0’ for The Independent and ‘Payne’s Grey’ for the New Statesman. He also worked briefly as a poster designer for the Royal Court Theatre and others ![]() He worked as an illustrator for a wide range of clients and his work appeared regularly in The Times, The Listener and The Observer. In 1976, after spending his teens in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he left to study illustration at Manchester Polytechnic, leaving in 1980 to freelance in London. Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom ![]()
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