John Fardell

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BornJohn Fardell
1967 (age 5657)
Occupationauthor & children's book illustrator
LanguageEnglish

John Fardell (born 1967) [1] is an English cartoonist, and author and illustrator of children's books.

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Fardell has been a regular contributor to the adult comic Viz , and has created and drawn two of the most popular and long-running strips, The Modern Parents [2] and The Critics , and also Ferdinand the Foodie and Desert Island Teacher . His strip The Modern Parents portrays the way a mother and father insist on bringing up their young sons by following a doctrine they term "ethical awareness", much to the children's detriment. [2] He also contributed illustrations and comic strips to 1990s video game magazine Electric Brain. [3]

Fardell is also an author and illustrator of children's books. To date he has produced three children's adventure novels: The Seven Professors of the Far North (2004), [4] The Flight of the Silver Turtle (2006), and The Secret of the Black Moon Moth (2009) – and three children's picture books: Manfred the Baddie (2008), [2] Jeremiah Jellyfish Flies High (2010), and The Day Louis Got Eaten (2011).

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References

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  3. Electric Brain - Video Game Magazine. 1993.
  4. Wall, Ian (4 August 2004). "Access My Library". Property Week . Retrieved 28 October 2009.