Peter Maddocks (born 1 April 1928) is an English
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 ...
.
He has contributed to many of the
United Kingdom
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's leading daily and Sunday national papers with cartoon series such as ''Four D. Jones'' in the
Daily Express
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in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He has also created children's animated series for the
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on 1 April 1928. In 1939 he won a scholarship to the city's
, where he was taught by Norman Pett. At the age of 15, Maddocks decided to leave school and join the
from 1943 to 1949.
After his six years in the Navy, Maddocks set up his own advertising agency, for which he designed cinema posters and wrote western series. He produced his first cartoons for the Daily Sketch from 1953 to 1954. From 1955 to 1965 he worked for the ''Daily Express'', for which he created his comic strip ''Four D. Jones''. In this comic, a cowboy travelled in the fourth dimension. This comic was a success for ten years for the ''Sunday Express''. He later became the Cartoon Editor for Express Newspapers from 1965 to 1966, and from 1968 to 1971 he was the Special Features Editor of ''King'' magazine. Maddocks' characters tend to have google eyes with splayed out fingers.
Maddocks has made contributions to the following:
*''Daily Star''
*''Daily Record''
*''Manchester Evening News''
*''Mail on Sunday''
*''Private Eye''
*''Daily Mirror''
*''Daily Telegraph''
*''Evening Standard''
*''Evening News''
*''Sunday Telegraph''
*''Mayfair''
*''Woman's Own''