Martyn Turner

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Martyn Turner (1948-) is an English political cartoonist, caricaturist and writer. His cartoons appear daily in The Irish Times parodying current events.

Turner was born in Wanstead, Essex and grew up in London. He was educated at Bancroft's School. In 1967, he went to Belfast and enrolled at the Queen's University of Belfast where he read geography. Turner was the first member of his family to go to university. Returning to London for his first Christmas break from college, he learned that one of his grandmothers was born on the Falls Road in Belfast, thus qualifying him for Irish nationality and an Irish passport.

Living in Belfast exposed Turner to the sectarianism of the city and he experienced the initial years of the Troubles and Northern Ireland politics have dominated his work to this day.

Around 1970, he began drawing professionally for the Sunday News. Upon graduation, he joined the Belfast current affairs magazine Fortnight where he became editor. In 1976, he was made political cartoonist at the Irish Times.

The Cartoonists and Writers Syndicate distribute some of Turner's cartoons to over 200 journals and newspapers round the world.

Turner lives in County Kildare with his wife. He has one son.

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[edit] Honoraria

Turner was named:

  • 1997, commentator of the Year, Irish Media Awards
Cartoon by Martyn Turner on the elections in Iraq. Copyright Martyn Turner 2004.
Cartoon by Martyn Turner on the elections in Iraq. Copyright Martyn Turner 2004.

[edit] Publications

[edit] Solo works

[edit] Collaborative works

  • Thin Black Lines Rides Again - Colm Regan, Scott Sinclair, Martyn Turner (TIDE - June, 1994) ISBN 0-948838-30-2
  • Cattle Rustling: A Retelling of the Táin - James Simmons, Martyn Turner (Fortnight Educational - December, 1991) ISBN 0-9509081-3-4

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