Richard Horne (cartoonist)

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Richard Horne (9 May 1960, Coventry - c. 10 January 2007, Scottish Island of Burra) was an author, illustrator and political cartoonist also known as Harry Horse.

His first book was "Opopogo, My Journey with the Loch Ness Monster" which was published in 1983. He also wrote The Last... series, which included The Last Polar Bears, which was made into a 30-minute cartoon for CITV, and The Last Castaways, which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize.

From 1987-1992 Horne was a political cartoonist for Scotland on Sunday, The Scotsman and until his death in 2007, the Sunday Herald newspapers. His illustrations also appeared regularly in the The Observer and The Independent newspapers. In 1993 he created, designed, and wrote a cult computer game for Time Warner called "Drowned God". His illustrations appeared in books as diverse as The Good Golf Guide to Scotland, a centenary edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the children's book Magus the Lollipop Man

On January 10, 2007, Horne's body and that of his wife Mandy, who had been terminally ill with multiple sclerosis, were discovered, lying together in their remote bungalow after an apparent suicide pact. Most sources speculate that Horne helped his desperately ill wife to end her life before taking his own. It is understood their pets were also found dead.