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!
- The Wolf of Baghdad – a memoir of a lost homeland. Graphic novel published by Myriad Editions, January 2020
- The Wolf of Baghdad motion comic (animated version with music), released March 2020, available to rent, stream or buy in the shop
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