Nick Newman

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For the fictional character from the soap opera The Young and the Restless, see Nicholas Newman.

Nick Newman (born 17 July 1958) is a satirical British cartoonist and comedy scriptwriter.

The son of an RAF officer, Newman was born in Kuala Lumpur and schooled at Ardingly College where his satirical career began, working on revues with Ian Hislop. Newman and Hislop's association continued at Oxford where Newman read History, and they subsequently worked together on Spitting Image, wrote for Maureen Lipman and co-wrote several episodes of Murder Most Horrid for Dawn French.^[1] Newman and Hislop's credits also include two series of My Dad's the Prime Minister for BBC 1, sketches for The Harry Enfield Show, creating the character Tim Nice-But-Dim, and the the BBC Radio 4 series Gush, a satire based on the first Gulf War, in the style of Jeffrey Archer.

Newman’s cartooning career was launched in 1976, when he sold his first drawings to Yachting Monthly – and by 1981 he was working regularly for Private Eye. Since 1989, he has been pocket cartoonist for The Sunday Times. His cartoons and strips have appeared in many other publications including Punch and The Spectator. The Cartoon Art Trust voted him Pocket Cartoonist of the Year (1997) and Gag Cartoonist of the Year (1998 and 2005). He won the Sports Journalists’ Association’s award for Sports Cartoonist of the Year in 2005 and 2007.