Ralph Steadman
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Ralph Steadman (born May 15, 1936) is a British cartoonist and caricaturist.
Born in Wallasey, Cheshire, Steadman attended East Ham Technical College and the London College of Printing and Graphic Arts during the 1960s, doing freelance work for Punch, Private Eye, The Daily Telegraph, The New York Times and Rolling Stone magazine during this time.
Steadman is renowned for his political and social caricatures and cartoons and also for illustrating a number of picture books. Awards that he has won for his work include the Francis Williams Book Illustration Award for Alice in Wonderland, the American Society of Illustrators' Certificate of Merit, the W.H. Smith Illustration Award for I Leonardo, the Dutch Silver Paintbrush Award for Inspector Mouse, the Italian Critica in Erba Prize for That's My Dad, the BBC Design Award for postage stamps, the Black Humour Award in France, and several Designers and Art Directors Association Awards. He was voted Illustrator of the Year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1979.
As well as writing and illustrating his own books, Steadman has worked with writers including Hunter S. Thompson, Ted Hughes and Brian Patten, and also illustrated editions of Alice In Wonderland, Treasure Island and Animal Farm.
Among the British public, Steadman is well known for his illustrations for the catalogues of the off-licence chain Oddbins.
Partial Bibliography
- The Little Red Computer (1968)
- Two Donkeys and a Bridge (1972)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1973) (written by Hunter S. Thompson)
- America (1974)
- Emergency Mouse (1978) (written by Bernard Stone)
- The Curse of Lono (1980) (written by Hunter S. Thompson)
- Inspector Mouse (1980) (written by Bernard Stone)
- I Leonardo (1983)
- No Good Dogs (1983)
- Quasimodo Mouse (1984) (written by Bernard Stone)
- Treasure Island (1985) (written by Robert Louis Stevenson)
- That's My Dad (1986)
- The Complete Alice (1986) (Through the Looking Glass and The Hunting of the Snark, written by Lewis Carroll)
- The Big I Am (1988)
- No Room to Swing a Cat (1989)
- Near the Bone (1990)
- The Grapes of Ralph: Wine according to Ralph Steadman (1992)
- Still Life with Bottle: Whisky according to Ralph Steadman (1994)
- Teddy! Where Are You? (1995)
- Animal Farm (1995) (written by George Orwell)
- Gonzo: The art of Ralph Steadman (1998)
- The Devil's Dictionary (2004) (written by Ambrose Bierce)
External link
- Website of Ralph Steadman (http://www.ralphsteadman.com/)
- /Article on Steadman's Oddbins catalogues (http://www.saveur.com/article.jsp?ID=1219&typeID=121)
- /Oddbins Steadman cover (http://www.gonzo.org/hst/ralph/whiskey/whiskey.asp?ID=4)
- / Another Oddbins Steadman cover from the Hunter Thompson website (http://www.gonzo.org/hst/ralph/whiskey/whiskey.asp?ID=6)
- / Illustration of Orwell (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dingonet/Steadman.htm)
- /Steadman t-shirts (http://www.ralphsteadman.com/01facts.asp)de:Ralph Steadman