John Fardell

Not to be confused with John Fardell (MP).
BornJohn Fardell
1967 (age 57–58)
Occupationauthor & children's book illustrator
LanguageEnglish

John Fardell (born 1967)[1] is an English cartoonist, and author and illustrator of children's books.

Work

Fardell has been a regular contributor to the adult comic Viz, and has created and drawn two of the most popular and long-running strips, The Modern Parents[2] and The Critics, and also Ferdinand the Foodie and Desert Island Teacher. His strip The Modern Parents portrays the way a mother and father insist on bringing up their young sons by following a doctrine they term "ethical awareness", much to the children's detriment.[2] He also contributed illustrations and comic strips to 1990s video game magazine Electric Brain.[3]

Fardell is also an author and illustrator of children's books. To date he has produced three children's adventure novels: The Seven Professors of the Far North (2004),[4] The Flight of the Silver Turtle (2006), and The Secret of the Black Moon Moth (2009) – and three children's picture books: Manfred the Baddie (2008),[2] Jeremiah Jellyfish Flies High (2010), and The Day Louis Got Eaten (2011).

References

  1. ^ Books from Scotland. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
  2. ^ a b c Maxwell, Tom (3 August 2008). "The father of invention – John Fardell". The Scotsman. Retrieved 28 October 2009.
  3. ^ Electric Brain - Video Game Magazine. 1993.
  4. ^ Wall, Ian (4 August 2004). "Access My Library". Property Week. Retrieved 28 October 2009.


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