(b London, 1 Sept 1935). English caricaturist and draughtsman. He attended the Slade School of Art, London (1954–7). For some years he was a theatre director and stage manager but gave up this career to earn his living drawing cartoons. The ‘Barry McKenzie’ comic strip (1964–74), conceived together with the writer and comedian Barry Humphries for the satirical magazine Private Eye, was one of his earliest and most successful creations. From 1966 to 1986 Garland was employed by the Daily Telegraph as their first political cartoonist; he later worked for a short time at The Independent (1986–91) before returning to his former newspaper. His cartoons have also appeared in several periodicals, for example the New Statesman & Society and The Spectator, and he has produced many illustrations for books. Garland’s work is greatly influenced by the earlier cartoonist ‘Vicky’ (Victor Weisz, 1913–66) and is reinforced by his literary knowledge. His cartoons, covering a vast gallery of contemporary political figures, provided a perceptive commentary on current affairs for more than three decades. What was probably Garland’s most effective cartoon was executed in 1990, shortly after the Conservative minister Nicholas Ridley made an outburst against the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and consequently had to resign: the biting cartoon depicted Ridley running off with a paintbrush and paint, having daubed a Hitler-style moustache on to the Chancellor. Garland was also actively involved in the campaign by the Cartoon Art Trust for a permanent museum in England devoted to cartoon art. He has exhibited widely in England, including at the Cartoon Gallery, London, an important showcase for contemporary humorous art, once run by the cartoonist Mel Calman (1931–94).