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Web : http://www.johnjensen.co.uk/
Born, Sydney Australia, the cartoonist son of a cartoonist father.
Political cartoonist for the London Sunday Telegraph 1961-1979.
Regular Punch contributor from 1974, producing illustrations, jokes, sports illustrations and TV caricatures until its closure in 1992.
Theatre caricaturist for Tatler and social cartoonist for Spectator, 1970s
Political cartoons at different times between 1980 - 2006 for The Independent, The Mail on Sunday and Tribune
John has Illustrated around 70 books and is currently drawing regularly for Writing Magazine and Writers' News. Large, pen drawings, mostly on theatrical subjects, are made for exhibition, these most recently shown at Shakespeare's Rose Theatre. In 2007 he drew for, and appeared in, BBC4's documentary, 'The Real Mr. Pooter'.
John has written articles for the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and contributed articles and reviews to a number of newspapers and magazines, including the Sunday Telegraph, The Independent , Kent University's 20th Century Studies, IBIS Studies in Illustration and The Cartoon Art Trust Newsletter. In 1999 he curated 'Lottery Laughter' and devised the catalogue. Has also given talks all over the place!
Originals are in the permanent collections of the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), the V&A, the British Museum, the Cartoon Museum (London) the Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent, Sammlung Karikaturen & Cartoons Basel, Muzeum Karykatury Warsaw, National Museum of Australia and the Rugby Museum, Twickenham.
Publications include: H.M. Bateman. The Man Who and other drawings...(Ed.)
Eyre Methuen 1975, Methuen paperback 1983, Mandarin paperback 1991.
The Only Good Bank Manager is...
Souvenir Press 1991 A book of JJ's cartoons.
'A Sort of Bird of Freedom'. Will Dyson.
Catalogue with biographical commentary. University of Kent and Australian High Commission, 1996.
Flotsam and Jensen
Anthology for a retrospective exhibition at the Cartoon Art Trust (now the Cartoon Museum). 2002.
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