Husband, Tony (1950 - 2023)

Tony Husband original cartoon artwork

Tony Husband is a self-taught artist, and began a career as a freelance cartoonist in the mid 1970s after a succession of jobs including advertising and window dressing. He became a full-time cartoonist in 1984. His gag cartoons contain much black humour. He has a regular cartoon strip in Private Eye entitled Yobs, which has run from the late 1980s. Husband doesn’t remember a time when he was not drawing pictures that provoked a laugh. “I was a shy kid,” he says, “we lived in the country, I wasn’t streetwise, I didn’t have the confidence to express myself, and I had a stammer until my late teens. Communications were easier for me in drawings. I was good at jokes and humour. When I knew I had to make a living out of it, and particularly at Private Eye, I developed a way of making jokes about life.”