About John Fardell
Born 1967. John Fardell is a cartoonist, writer, illustrator, children's writer, marionetteist and caricaturist.
John Fardell (born 1967) is an English cartoonist, and author and illustrator of children's books.
Work Fardell has been a regular contributor to the adult comic Viz, and has created and drawn two of the most popular and long-running strips, The Modern Parents
Fardell is also an author and illustrator of children's books. To date he has produced three children's adventure novels: The Seven Professors of the Far North (2004), The Flight of the Silver Turtle (2006), and The Secret of the Black Moon Moth (2009) – and three children's picture books: Manfred the Baddie (2008), Jeremiah Jellyfish Flies High (2010), and The Day Louis Got Eaten (2011).
His picture book The Day Louis Got Eaten! won the younger category of the Scottish Children's Book Award in 2012.
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John Fardell was born in 1967.
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John Fardell is a cartoonist, writer, illustrator, children's writer, marionetteist and caricaturist.
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