Paul Cemmick

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Paul Cemmick is a cartoonist and caricaturist whose designs and work have been seen in many different media, most prominently animation, (British) comics and book covers. According to the website ChildrensIllustrators.com[1], Mr Cemmick "started drawing cartoons as a child by copying Popeye, Tom and Jerry and Yogi Bear from his gran’s TV."

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[edit] Books

[edit] Maid Marian and Her Merry Men

Main article: Maid Marian and Her Merry Men

Arguably his best-known credit is for the well-loved BBC children's series Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, for which he provided the artwork for the famous closing credits. Concurrent with the series' run during 1989-1993, Mr Cemmick illustrated eight comics adapted from the programme's scripts by series creator and lead writer Tony Robinson. In 2006-2007 he produced four all-new mini-comics which were included in the each of the four series DVD releases from Eureka Entertainment. See Bibliography (below) for details.

[edit] Covers

Mr Cemmick's best-known cover artwork adorns several of the later covers of Tom Holt's comic-fantasy novels, published by Orbit Books in the UK.[2] Mr Cemmick was the third regular Holt cover-artist, following in the footsteps of Josh Kirby and Steve Lee. Mr Holt explained the transition from Lee to Cemmick being due to "some sort of falling-out between [Lee] and the Orbit people" after his novel "Open Sesame" (1997).[3]

[edit] Cartoons

Cemmick's cartoons and caricatures have appeared on numerous occasions in the UK Sci-Fi magazine SFX, and publications including "Take a Break" magazine. He co-created "N.U.T.S. Investigations" with Spitting Image and 2DTV alumnus Giles Pilbrow for the The Sunday Times, and has produced full comicstrip artwork for several BBC magazines, including "Girl Talk" and "It's Hot". These official BBC comicstrips include adaptations of EastEnders, adventures of the Blue Peter pets, and most recently (as an interesting semi-follow-up to his work on MM&HMM), the latest BBC One version of Robin Hood (2006) in 'Robin Hood Adventures' issue 1 (BBC Magazines, 10-23 October 2007).

[edit] Television Credits

In television, he has worked on Spitting Image as well as the afore-mentioned Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. He was also one of the designers and three main artists on the ITV television series 2DTV (2001), working on that programme for all of its five series'.[4] He recently designed the logo for the revamped ITV animated series Emu (2007) starring Emu, Rod Hull's famous sidekick.[5]

[edit] Other

In his spare time he and Mark Harrison are in a band called "2BC", which produces music of an "Electro/Comedy/Electronica" hue.[6]

He lives in Hove with a stuffed piranha.

[edit] Bibligraphy

[edit] Maid Marian and Her Merry Men

Written (and adapted) by Tony Robinson, illustrated by Paul Cemmick. Published by the BBC and Penguin Character Books Ltd. between 1989 and 1992.

[edit] Other Illustrations

  • The Funny Side of Teaching by Stirling Johnstone and Paul Cemmick, with an introduction by Ronnie Corbett (Stevenson Publications Ltd (Oct 1995)) ISBN 0-952-63950-5
  • The "Funday Times" Fantastic Fun Book by Richard Lloyd-Perry and Paul Cemmick (Boxtree) ISBN 1-852-83858-2
  • Crocodile by Rachel Ward and Paul Cemmick (Quadrillion Media, LLC (Jun 1999)) ISBN 1-841-00210-0
  • Hippo by Rachel Ward and Paul Cemmick (Quadrillion Media, LLC (Jun 1999)) ISBN 1-841-00211-9
  • Panda by Rachel Ward and Paul Cemmick (Quadrillion Media, LLC (Jun 1999)) ISBN 1-841-00213-5
  • Tiger by Rachel Ward and Paul Cemmick (Quadrillion Media, LLC (Jun 1999)) ISBN 1-841-00212-7
  • The Ultimate Scooter Guide by Ben Sharpe and Paul Cemmick (Scholastic (Jan 2001)) ISBN 0-439-28554-2
  • Pulp Idol (SFX (2006))
  • Choices, choices... by Dawne Allette and Paul Cemmick (Tamarind Books Limited (Jul 2007)) ISBN 1-870-51683-4

[edit] Covers


[edit] External links

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Paul Cemmick at ChildrensIllustrators.com. Accessed December, 2007
  2. ^ Covers of Tom Holt's novels. Accessed December, 2007
  3. ^ Tom Holt FAQ. Accessed December, 2007
  4. ^ 2DTV Personnel List. Accessed December, 2007
  5. ^ Paul Cemmick's design for the Emu logo at Picture-Book.com. Accessed December, 2007
  6. ^ 2BC Band Page at MySpace Music. Accessed December, 2007