Gary Northfield

Last updated

Gary Northfield (born June 1969) is a British cartoonist, most famous for his Derek the Sheep comic strip published in DC Thomson's The Beano and BeanoMAX . [1]

Contents

Born in Romford, [2] Northfield graduated from Harrow College University of Westminster with a degree in Illustration in 1992. [3] He joined the British small press comics [4] community in 1999, creating various titles such as Great!, Little Box of Comics and Stupidmonsters. [5] In 2002, he acquired the position of in-house illustrator at Eaglemoss Publications, where he worked for five years on projects such as Horrible Histories Magazine, Horrible Science Magazine and The Magical World of Roald Dahl . [3]

Derek the Sheep began appearing in The Beano from February 2004, and is unique in that it is The Beano's first and only creator-owned character. [6] [7] [5] A collection of early Derek the Sheep stories was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in September 2008 and in France by Actes Sud/Editions De L'an2, [8] reprinting the first thirteen strips in The Beano.

In 2008, Northfield illustrated the comic strip Pinky's Crackpot Circus for The Dandy , and wrote and drew World's Greatest Heroes for National Geographic Kids . In 2009, he created Little Cutie for The DFC . In 2012 his strip Gary's Garden began appearing regularly in the weekly comic, The Phoenix , with the first year's worth of strips collected in the book The Phoenix Presents - Gary's Garden: Book 1 . In 2016, he returned to The Beano with the strip Zooella.

He also illustrated the children's books Henry VIII Has To Choose and Sleeping Beauty: 100 Years Later, for Franklin Watts. [9]

In 2013, Walker Books published The Terrible Tales Of The Teenytinysaurs, a collection of never-before published strips. [10]

Northfield's first children's novel and international best seller Julius Zebra: Rumble with the Romans! , was published by Walker books in March 2015. His subsequent books in the series are: Julius Zebra: Battle with the Britons! , Julius Zebra: Entangled with the Egyptians! , with the next installment Julius Zebra: Grapple with the Greeks! published in October 2018. His first joke book, Julius Zebra Joke Book Jamboree! was published in June 2019.

In 2017, Northfield alongside his partner, established a new children’s comic book publisher, Bog Eyed Books. [11]

Books

List of published comics

References

  1. ↑ Scotsman Beano at 70 article
  2. ↑ "Authors: Gary Northfield". Booktrust. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Agent profile". Archived from the original on 1 December 2010. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
  4. ↑ Wikipedia British Small Press 2000s
  5. 1 2 mondoagogo interview
  6. ↑ Paul Gravett Beano 70th Anniversary article
  7. ↑ Downthetubes book review
  8. ↑ Lew Stringer book review
  9. ↑ Franklin Watts catalogue
  10. ↑ "Forbidden Planet Blog May 29 2013". Archived from the original on 10 January 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  11. ↑ Bog Eyed Books
  12. ↑ The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs
  13. ↑ The Phoenix Presents - Gary's Garden: Book 1
  14. ↑ Julius Zebra - Rumble With The Romans
  15. ↑ Julius Zebra - Battle With The Britons
  16. ↑ Julius Zebra - Entangled With The Egyptians!
  17. ↑ Julius Zebra - Grapple With The Greeks!
  18. ↑ Julius Zebra - Joke Book Jamboree!
  19. ↑ Max the Mouse
  20. ↑ Zoo-Ella
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.