birth_place training nationality patrons field birth_date article_title name bgcolour
bangor , gwynedd salford art school manchester uk british giles , low and jak painter , cartoonist 16 june 1948 rick brookes
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rick brookes

rick brookes is a satirical cartoonist born in bangor , wales , on june 16 , 1948 .
having studied art at salford art school , manchester , he worked first as an assistant art editor for mirabelle magazine and then as a graphic artist and designer for ipc magazines such as `` woman 's own '' , `` woman 's realm '' and `` ideal home '' .
brookes was an illustrator and staff cartoonist at the evening standard from 1977 , signing his strips first `` rick brookes '' then `` brookes '' .
he worked alongside jak for eighteen years , deputising for him in 1994 brookes began contributing to the daily express taking over from giles , using the signature `` brook '' , and he kept the same signature after he moved to `` the sun '' in 1996 , taking over from tom johnston .
brookes 's cartoons appear regularly in newspapers such as news of the world , mail on sunday , the american and punch , and is especially popular on metro , with his series `` this life '' .
he also worked on the allied lyons advertising campaign for saatchi & saatchi .
greatly influenced by giles , low and jak , brookes also admires oliphant , matt and mac .
he is reported as drawing his sketches with a swan fountain pen and flexible nib , just so that he can be suppler in his drawing .
he used to hide a rook in his drawings `` because there is a rook hidden in ` brookes ' '' .
