Paul Cemmick is a

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

and

caricaturist A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures. List of caricaturists * Abed Abdi (born 1942) * Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003) * Alex Gard (1900–1948) * Alexander Saroukhan (1898–1977) * Alfred Grévin (1827–1892) * Alf ...

whose designs and work have been seen in many different media, most prominently animation, (British) comics and book covers. According to the website ChildrensIllustrators.com, Mr Cemmick "started drawing cartoons as a child by copying

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and

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from his gran’s TV."

Books

Maid Marian and Her Merry Men

Arguably his best-known credit is for the well-loved

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children's series ''

Maid Marian and Her Merry Men ''Maid Marian and her Merry Men'' is a British children's television series created and written by Tony Robinson and directed by David Bell. It began in 1989 on BBC1 and ran for four series, with the last episode shown in 1994. The show was a pa ...

'', for which he provided the artwork for the famous closing credits. Concurrent with the series' run during 1989-1993, Mr Cemmick illustrated eight comics adapted from the programme's scripts by series creator and lead writer

Tony Robinson Sir Anthony Robinson (born 15 August 1946) is an English actor, author, broadcaster, comedian, presenter, and political activist. He played Baldrick in the BBC television series ''Blackadder'' and has presented several historical documentaries ...

. In 2006-2007 he produced four all-new mini-comics which were included in each of the four series DVD releases fro
Eureka Entertainment
See Bibliography (below) for details.

Covers

Mr Cemmick's best-known cover artwork adorns several of the later covers of

Tom Holt Thomas Charles Louis Holt (born 13 September 1961) is a British novelist. In addition to fiction published under his own name, he writes fantasy under the pseudonym K. J. Parker. Biography Holt was born in London, the son of novelist Hazel H ...

's comic-fantasy novels, published by

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in the UK. Mr Cemmick was the third regular Holt cover-artist, following in the footsteps of

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and Steve Lee. Mr Holt explained the transition from Lee to Cemmick being due to "some sort of falling-out between eeand the Orbit people" after his novel "Open Sesame" (1997).

Cartoons

Cemmick's cartoons and caricatures appear regularly in the UK Sci-Fi magazine

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, and publications including "Take a Break" magazine. He co-created "N.U.T.S. Investigations" with

Spitting Image ''Spitting Image'' is a British satirical television puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. First broadcast in 1984, the series was produced by 'Spitting Image Productions' for Central Independent Television ov ...

and

2DTV ''2DTV'' is a British satirical animated television series which was co-created and produced by Giles Pilbrow for ITV. It premiered on ITV1 on 14 October 2001 and was nominated for the Rose d'Or Award in both 2002 and 2003. The programme was cons ...

alumnus Giles Pilbrow for

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, and has produced full comicstrip artwork for several

magazines, including "Girl Talk" and "It's Hot". These official BBC comicstrips include adaptations of

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, adventures of the Blue Peter pets, and most recently (as an interesting semi-follow-up to his work on MM&HMM), the latest

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version of ''

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'' (2006) in 'Robin Hood Adventures' issue 1 (BBC Magazines, 10–23 October 2007). Paul is currently producing 2 comic strips in the weekly BBC publication Match of the Day. As well as a double page comic strip in a new magazine based on the massively successful TV show Top Gear. The mag is called Top Gear Turbo.

Television Credits

In television, he has worked on

as well as the afore-mentioned

. He was also one of the designers and three main artists on the

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television series ''

'' (2001), working on that programme for all of its five series'. He recently designed the logo for the revamped

animated serie
Emu
(2007) starring

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's famous sidekick.

Other

In his spare time he and Mark Harrison are in a band called "2BC", which produces music of an "Electro/Comedy/

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" hue.2BC Band Page at MySpace Music
Accessed December, 2007

Bibliography

Maid Marian and Her Merry Men

Written (and adapted) by

, illustrated by Paul Cemmick. Published by the

and

Penguin Penguins (order (biology), order List of Sphenisciformes by population, Sphenisciformes , family (biology), family Spheniscidae ) are a group of Water bird, aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: on ...

Character Books Ltd. between 1989 and 1992. *''How the Band got Together'' (Penguin Character Books/BBC (Nov 1989)) *''Robert the Incredible Chicken'' (Penguin Character Books/BBC (Nov 1989)) *''The Whitish Knight'' (Penguin Character Books/BBC (Oct 1990)) *''The Beast of Bolsover'' (BBC/Penguin Character Books (Oct 1990)) *''The Worksop Egg Fairy'' (Penguin Character Books/BBC (Oct 1991)) *''Rabies in Love'' (BBC/Penguin Character Books (Oct 1991)) *''It Came From Outer Space'' (Penguin Character Books/BBC (Nov 1992)) *''Driving Ambition and Keeping Mum'' (Penguin Character Books/BBC (Nov 1992))

Other Illustrations

* ''The Funny Side of Teaching'' by Stirling Johnstone and Paul Cemmick, with an introduction by

Ronnie Corbett Ronald Balfour Corbett (4 December 1930 – 31 March 2016) was a Scottish actor, broadcaster, comedian and writer. He had a long association with Ronnie Barker in the BBC television comedy sketch show ''The Two Ronnies''. He achieved promine ...

(Stevenson Publications Ltd (Oct 1995)) * ''The "

Funday Times The ''Funday Times'' was a section of the UK ''The Sunday Times (UK), Sunday Times.'' It was intended mainly for children, and included several comic strips, including ''Dennis the Menace (UK), Dennis and Gnasher'', ''Rex and Tex'', ''Beryl the ...

" Fantastic Fun Book'' by Richard Lloyd-Perry and Paul Cemmick (Boxtree) * ''Crocodile'' by Rachel Ward and Paul Cemmick (Quadrillion Media, LLC (Jun 1999)) * ''Hippo'' by Rachel Ward and Paul Cemmick (Quadrillion Media, LLC (Jun 1999)) * ''Panda'' by Rachel Ward and Paul Cemmick (Quadrillion Media, LLC (Jun 1999)) * ''Tiger'' by Rachel Ward and Paul Cemmick (Quadrillion Media, LLC (Jun 1999)) * ''The Ultimate Scooter Guide'' by Ben Sharpe and Paul Cemmick (Scholastic (Jan 2001)) * ''Pulp Idol'' (SFX (2006)) * ''Choices, choices...'' by Dawne Allette and Paul Cemmick (Tamarind Books Limited (Jul 2007))

Covers

* ''

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'' by

HB (Orbit (1998)) PB (Orbit (1998)) * ''Only Human'' by

HB (Orbit (1999)) PB (Orbit (2000)) * '' Snow White and the Seven Samurai'' by

HB (Orbit (Dec 1999)) PB (Orbit (Jun 2000) * ''Valhalla'' by

HB (Orbit (Jun 2000)) PB (Orbit (May 2001)) * '' Nothing But Blue Skies'' by

HB (Orbit (May 2001)) PB (Orbit (2001)) * ''Falling Sideways'' by

HB (Orbit (2002)) PB (Orbit (2002))

External links

Official SitePaul Cemmick at ChildrensIllustrators.comPaul 'Smooth' Cemmick and Mark 'Heavy' Harrison's band ''2BC'' at MySpace MusicA small portfolio of Paul Cemmick's work at the Brighton Illustrator's Group
mirrore
hereA small portfolio of Paul Cemmick's work at Picture-Book.com, the Directory of Children's IllustrationA very short - and incomplete - list of Paul Cemmick's cover artwork

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