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Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.

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I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

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I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.

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I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.

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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.

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I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.

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It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.

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I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?

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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Cartoonist

Born: December 16th, 1932

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