![]() ![]() Has been nominated for many awards including the Edgar Awards, the UKLA Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal. He has written several books for children & young-adults, both fiction and non-fiction, and He currently has a weekly strip cartoon called 'Payne's Grey' in the New Statesman.Ĭhris has been a published author since 2000. Chris worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for twenty years, working mainly for magazines & newspapers (these include The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Economist and the Wall Street Journal) before becoming a writer. ![]() He now lives in Cambridge with his wife and son where he writes, draws, paints, dreams and doodles (not necessarily in that order). He spent his teens in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, before moving to Manchester, London and then Norfolk. ![]() He decided then “that my ambition was to write and illustrate my own book”. He was an avid reader of American comics as a child, and when he was eight or nine, and living in Gibraltar, he won a prize in a newspaper story-writing competition. His father was in the army and so he moved around a lot as a child and lived in Wales. ![]()
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