ABOUT THE SURREAL McCOY

Cartoonist. Sometimes animator. As seen in the New Yorker, Private Eye, Sunday Times, Independent, London Evening Standard, London Jewish News; Readers’ Digest, Spectator, Prospect, Private Eye, Oldie & Fortean Times magazines, and other unlikely places.

Other clients include; Random House and Bloomsbury Publishing, Ogilvy Advertising, Tablet magazine and Sandi Toksvig’s daily radio show for LBC (as Cartoonist-In-Residence).

NEW!

Other books include;

Everyone’s a Critic, The Ultimate Cartoon Book, published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2019; Girls Are Best by Sandi Toksvig; Alex Through The Looking Glass by Alex Bellos; The Inking Woman, 250 Years of Women Cartoon & Comic Artists in Britain; Strumpet – Origin Stories, a comics anthology

ALSO: The Surreal McCoy greetings cards now available from Cath Tate Cards and all good card shops.


 

RECENT EXHIBITIONS:

2022

Look & Learn, Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, Shrewsbury

2020

Vision & No One Saw It Coming, Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, Shrewsbury

2019

Galway Cartoon Festival, Galway Ireland

The London Cartoon Show , Charing Cross Library, London

Fly Me To The Moon, Herne Bay Cartoon Festival and exhibition, Kent

A Breath of Fresh Air exhibition, One New Street Gallery, Herne Bay, Kent

6th International Cartoon Gathering Exhbition, Egyptian Caricature Association, Cairo, Egypt

GAGGED –  an exhibition on censorship, Media Freedom Conference, London

Book Marks – cartoons about libraries & literature, Westminster Reference Library, London

St Just Le Martel Cartoon Festival, France

Animals Exhibition, Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival, Shrewsbury

Still Life, One New Street Gallery, Herne Bay, Kent

Women In History Exhibition , Idea Store, Canary Wharf, London

2018

Galway Cartoon Festival, Galway, Ireland

Turning The Tide , Herne Bay

Contains Male Nudity , One New Street Gallery, Herne Bay, Kent

Funny Ladies at the New Yorker: Cartoonists Then and Now, Society Of Illustrators, NYC

GAGGED – exhibition of cartoons on censorship at Westminster Reference Library, London

St Just Le Martel Cartoon Festival, France

Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, Shrewsbury

2017

Mona Lisa – NOT Funny & End Of The Pier cartoon exhibitions at Herne Bay, Kent

The Inking Woman; British Women Cartoonists, the Cartoon Museum, London

Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, Shrewsbury

NOT The RA Summer Exhibition, Chris Beetles Gallery, Piccadilly, London

Cartoonists At The Seaside, Herne Bay, Kent

St Just Le Martel Cartoon Festival, France

1066 Hastings Cartoon Festival, Hastings, Sussex

Cartoonists At The Cinema exhibition at the Phoenix Cinema, London