Terry Willers

Terry Willers (1935 – 9 November 2011) was a cartoonist and comics artist in Ireland. He was born in Barnet in North London but spent most of his life in Ireland, living initially in Carrigower then for over 40 years in Rathdrum, both in County Wicklow. In 1992, he was the co-founder and chairman of the Guinness International Cartoon Festival, which ran for three years in Rathdrum. He was a winner of the Jacobs Award for his work for television.

Willers worked as an errand boy at a film studio in London when he was 15, then he joined British Disney magazine Mickey Mouse Weekly. At the age of 17 he was contributing the four-panel cartoon 'Tich' to TV Comic (1952–53). In 1959, he also contributed the cartoon Zip to Jack & Jill.

Writing in the Irish Times, fellow cartoonist Martyn Turner wrote, "He was always very happy and full of jokes and was an incredibly talented artist. Most cartoonists become cartoonists because they have to...but Terry could draw anything and everything. In many ways he was an artist more than he was a cartoonist."