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Martin Honeysett (1943-2015)

Martin Honeysett (1943-2015)

Martin Honeysett was born in Hereford on 20 May 1943, and grew up in Croydon. He was taught art by cartoonist Geoffrey Dickinson at Selhurst Grammar School, and studied for a year at Croydon School of Art (1960-61). During the nineteen-sixties, he took a wide variety of jobs, first in England, and then in New Zealand (1962-65) and Canada (1965-68), returning to London to work as a bus driver while producing cartoons in his spare time. Selling his first cartoon to the Daily Mirror in 1969, he turned freelance in 1972, and contributed to a variety of periodicals, including the Evening Standard, the Observer, Private Eye, Punch and the Radio Times.����� He died on 21 January 2015.

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