Peter Maddocks

Peter Maddocks1 April 1928 - 20 November 2024. Was an English cartoonist.

He contributed to many of the United Kingdom's leading daily and Sunday national papers with cartoon series such as Four D. Jones in the Daily Express in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He also created children's animated series for the BBC in the 1980s, including The Family-Ness, Penny Crayon and Jimbo and the Jet-Set, and The Caribou Kitchen for ITV in the 1990s.

He continued with many more publications through cartoons and short stories.

Education

Maddocks was born in Birmingham on 1 April 1928. In 1939 he won a scholarship to the city's Moseley School of Art, where he was taught by Norman Pett. At the age of 15, Maddocks decided to leave school and join the Merchant Navy from 1943 to 1949.^[1]

Career

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.^[1]

Contributions

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^[1]

Filmography


Year	Title	Channel	Credit
1984-1985	The Family-Ness	BBC One	Creator
1986-1987	Jimbo and The Jet-Set	Children's BBC
1989-1990	Penny Crayon	Children's BBC
1995-1998	The Caribou Kitchen	Children's ITV	Artistic Director
1995-1998	The Caribou Kitchen	Children's ITV	Storyboards

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Peter Maddocks cartoonist and artist Malaga Costa del Sol and Worldwide". Maddocks. Archived from the original on 10 February 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2013.

External links

Peter Maddocks at IMDb

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