Metro’s cartoonist Guy Venables has received heaps of praise as he claimed the coveted crown of Pocket Cartoon Series of the Year. The talented scribbler ended fellow cartoonist Matt Pritchett ‘s 11-year winning streak and was praised for his sketches by judges at the Professional Cartoonists Awards in London last night.
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Guy has been working at Metro for six years and has been praised for his ability to create witty, cutting and on the nose cartoons over the last 12 months. His Pocket Cartoon series award takes in all his drawings over the last year, with his clever takes on both local and national topics.
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His cartoons on the UK elections, the Rotherham riots, the Russia-Ukraine war and the sewage leak scandal have all won him high praise. The seasoned satirist had his first cartoon published in Punch when he was just 15 (only a few years ago) and works not only for Metro, but has had his work published in Private Eye, The Spectator, The New Yorker.
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He is also a writer for comedy on the BBC, Channe 4, ITV and Radio 4. ‘We are all thrilled that Guy has been honoured, knocking the highly acclaimed Matt off his cartoon perch! His sharp wit and sense of humour on a daily basis brings light relief to all the doom and gloom in the world.’.
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Guy’s approach to cartoons is a mixture of pure pen and ink drawing technique and teaching the methods of taking a news story or situation and drawing the humour from it using diagrams, lists, and visual aids with help from examples from the history of cartooning.
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