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He was born in Cambridge, started drawing at the age of five and left school at the age of fifteen. When World War II broke out, he enlisted, and joined the Royal Engineers . He trained for two years in the United Kingdom , and, in 1941, published the first St Trinian's cartoon in the art magazine Lilliput . In January 1941, he was stationed in Singapore . After Singapore fell to the Japan ese, he was taken prisoner along with his cousin Tom Fordham Searle. He spent the rest of the war a prisoner, and worked on the Siam-Burma Railway . While a prisoner, he made drawings of camp life, which he hid under the mattresses of prisoners suffering from Cholera . He was liberated in 1945, and took the surviving drawings home with him and published them. He married , cartoons for the Tribune , the Sunday Express and the News Chronicle , along with more St Trinian's books, Molesworth , as well as travel books, animation for Disney , and advertisements, posters etc. He received recognition for his work, including the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award in 1959 and 1965, the Reuben Award in 1960, their Illustration Award in 1980, and their Advertising Award in 1986 and 1987. In 1961 he left England and moved to Paris , where he married Monica Koenig. In France , he worked more on painting, and less on cartoons, leading to a series of paintings entitled "Anatomies and Decapitations". He continued to work in a broad range of media, and produced books (including his well-known cat books), animations for films, even designs for medals. His work has had considerable influence on later cartoonists, including Matt Groening , among others. EXTERNAL LINKS
He attended Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, currently known as Anglia Polytechnic University |