Richard Yeend, a London-based cartoonist, newspaper and typeface designer, was an editorial cartoonist for The Guardian and Sunday Occasions from 1969–1974. In 1974 he moved to the U.S. and labored for The Boston Herald American and The New York Occasions, the place we briefly labored in live performance. In 1987 he joined the Worldwide Herald Tribune in Paris, and in 1998 moved to Die Welt in Berlin.
His visible journalism and commentary continued unabated. In 1999 he turned artwork director of The Wall Road Journal Europe, contributing caricatures and stipple headcuts. He has designed 22 typeface households for Monotype and Linotype. His satirical graphic novels The King’s Irish: A Celtic Tiger Earns His Stripes and Tex Twitter Meets the Cherokee had been printed by Markosia.
He’s presently within the course of of making The Yankee Emperor and His Kangaroo Courtier, an interesting Brits’-eye view of America’s present political folly. “The Australian star of this comedian ebook has been a serious affect on U.S., British and Australian politics,” Yeend notes. “His papers have inspired wars and his TV channel disputed local weather change and COVID-19. Each he and his American acolyte are natural-born cartoon characters, masters of deceit, had Scottish moms and are due for a dose of actuality.” That is half one among 4 that will probably be printed on this area as they’re accomplished. Ultimately we’ll have a 60-page comedian, simply in time for 2024’s electoral circus.
