Mike Peyton is the world's most famous nautical cartoonist - the Matt or Giles of the sailing world. This is his authorised biography, complete with many of his iconic cartoons, written by Dick Durham - ex Fleet Street journalist, Yachting Monthly's Features Editor and Mike's lifelong friend.
Dick romps through Mike's life, from his early schoolboy sketches to being seconded by the intelligence corps during World War Two to draw maps of the North African deserts, from there running a PoW newspaper, and, back in the UK, going on to work as a freelance cartoonist on as diverse titles as the Church of England Times and Corsetry & Underwear.
Sympathetic, entertaining and insightful, this is the long-deserved biography of a man who has dominated the nautical humour scene for well over seven decades.
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Print ISBN
9781408124406
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1Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 • Benighted King Coal
- 2 • The North
- 3 • The Mickey Mouse Club
- 4 • Man Eating Dog
- 5 • Class Clash
- 6 • Design a Life
- 7 • Marsh Country
- 8 • A Rise-on
- 9 • Hiscock in the Swatchways
- 10 • Going Foreign
- 11 • Rescue at Sea
- 12 • The Solent
- 13 • Lost at Sea
- 14 • Chris Doyle comes to Essex
- 15 • A Brush with the RNLI
- 16 • Anchor Dragging
- 17 • Magna Charter
- 18 • The Boat Show
- 19 • Cartoon into Boat
- 20 • Sailing with Mr Peyton
- Acknowledgements
- Books by Mike Peyton
- Photography credits
- eCopyright