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Jack Kirkbride

1923 – 2006

English cartoonist

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About Jack Kirkbride

Lived 1923 – 2006 (aged 83). Jack Kirkbride was a British cartoonist and writer.

Jack Kirkbride (31 March 1923 – 1 October 2006) was an English cartoonist, and father to Anne Kirkbride, the actress who played Deirdre Barlow in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1972 to 2014.

Kirkbride left school at the age of fourteen to become an apprentice painter and decorator but was called up for the Army at age eighteen, when he began to draw cartoons. He served from 1942 as a transport driver with the Royal Army Service Corps. He fought in the Normandy Campaign in 1944 and was demobbed in 1946. He sold his first cartoon to a national paper in 1953 (a Mothers' Day gag for the Sunday Dispatch) and later sold to most national papers and magazines, including Punch and The Oldie. His work also appeared in the German press under the name of Jacki.

He became the Oldham Evening Chronicle's regular cartoonist in 1958 and went full-time in the 1970s.

He was a founder member of the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain and his work was published across Europe.

Kirkbride won first prize at the Waddington's International Cartoon Festival (Margate 1989). His hobbies included listening to classical music, renovating his 18th century farmhouse on the edge of Saddleworth Moor and playing the pianola.

He died of an aneurysm at his home in Oldham, at the age of 83.

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Important facts

Birth century
Occupation
Nationality
Employers
Oldham Evening Chronicle
Also known as
John Kirkbride, John Franklin Kirkbride

Family & relationships

Child
Anne Kirkbride

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People whose lives overlapped Jack Kirkbride's

Frequently asked questions

Who was Jack Kirkbride?

English cartoonist (1923-2006)

When was Jack Kirkbride born?

Jack Kirkbride was born on 31 March 1923 in Oldham.

When did Jack Kirkbride die?

Jack Kirkbride died on 1 October 2006 in Oldham.

What was Jack Kirkbride's occupation?

Jack Kirkbride was a cartoonist and writer.

What nationality was Jack Kirkbride?

Jack Kirkbride was British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Jack Kirkbride

· Wikidata: Q6113492

· DBpedia: Jack Kirkbride

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