July 11, 2007
Kevin Woodcock, 1942-2007
Kevin Robert Woodcock, a distinctive cartoonist best known for a run of single- and two-panel silent cartoons in
Private Eye from the 1970s to the 1990s, a satirical magazine that also published Ralph Steadman and Gerald Scarfe,
died on July 6. He worked most frequently in pen and ink, with a note of the surreal in the visions he portrayed. Born in Leicester, he was trained at that city's College of Art in the early 1960s. A series of odd jobs preceded his entry into full-time freelance cartooning a decade out of school. Woodcock freelanced for a variety of publications, and three collections of his work were published, including a Best Of in 1987. His cartoons were exhibited both by themselves in dedicated shows and as part of exhibitions devoted to the history of
Private Eye. A reclusive man, Woodcock's only known appearance, according to the
Independent article which provided nearly every scrap of information in this post, was a 1981 interview for a documentary.
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