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Tony Husband?British

Polyp?British

Put Down Your Pen!

The Pen Is The Sword

2013
Signed

2013
Signed

Framed
Pen and ink
on paper
21 x 29.5 cm

Framed
Pen and ink wash
on recycled paper
10 x 13 cm

Guide Price £100

Guide Price £75

Polyp is a Manchester-based cartoonist for New
Internationalist Magazine. He has worked with
Friends of the Earth, Liberty, Ethical Consumer,
Christian Aid and a host of other social justice
and environmental groups. He is an active
member of the sceptics and co-operative
movements, as well as chair of the Peterloo
Memorial Campaign.
He is the author of the books Big Bad World,
Speechless: World History Without Words and
The Co-operative Revolution.

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William Anthony Husband was born in 1950 in Blackpool, Lancashire
and attended Holy Trinity CE Primary School in Hyde. Tony later went
to Greenfield Street School in Hyde, Greater Manchester. He married
Carole Garner in 1976. They have one son (born 1978) and live in Hyde.
He likes music, golf, wine, Manchester United and tortoises, in no
particular order, and cannot believe that he is featured in Who’s Who.
Tony became a full-time cartoonist in 1984. His cartoons contain much
black humour. His cartoons are often found on humorous greeting
cards, and he has a regular cartoon strip in Private Eye entitled Yobs,
which has run from the late 1980s. He co-wrote the Round the Bend
children’s television series, which ran from 1989 to 1991. He was also
involved with Hangar 17, which ran from 1992 to 1994. He has won The
Cartoon Museum’s Pont Award.

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