Join us as we welcome Ed Waugh and David Haldane to The Word. Ed will be in conversation with David, who has been a political cartoonist for 50 years. The event will also include an opportunity to ask Ed and David your questions.
Tickets £3 per person (plus booking fee).
About David Haldane
David was born and educated in Blyth before studying graphic design at Newcastle Poly, now Northumbria University. He worked in the art department of the Shields Gazette from 1977 until 1983.
David has been a topical and political cartoonist for 50 years. His first cartoon was published in Punch in 1977 and he was a weekly contributor until the magazine closed in 1992.
Working for numerous national newspapers, his cartoons have appeared The Express, Mirror, Guardian, Telegraph, Daily Mail and The Sunday Times. He produced daily pocket cartoons for The Times from 2005 until 2017. During the 1980s, David contributed sketches to the original Spitting Image and he worked on Oink, a comic for young adults created by Tony Husband. His children's book The Zoo Goes to France was published by Methuen in 1983.
Recently, David has had a large retrospective exhibition in York and Haldane cartoons can be found regularly in Private Eye.
This event is part of our WRITE Festival which takes place throughout the whole of September. Enjoy a programme of unmissable events, workshops and performances!
