About Karl Dixon ...

I’ve been drawing cartoons, professionally for over 15 years and in that time I’ve worked in just about every field you can think of. Below is a list of some of the credits I’ve gathered within a few of these areas:

Spot cartoons: This was where I really cut my teeth and learned my trade, getting experience in working fast but with quality. After selling my first spot cartoon to Bella magazine I quickly progressed to being a regular contributor in other publications and newspapers like the Daily & Sunday Mirror, the Sun, News of the World, the People, Titbits, Best, TV Quick, Weekly News & the Cartoonist (now defunct). I also had a European agent who sold hundreds of my cartoons around the world through his European Press Features Syndicate. From here I went into feature cartoons.

Feature Panel Cartoons: By this I mean the big cartoon like Giles or Mac. These I did for the local daily and weekly publications like Blackpool Evening Gazette, Norwich Evening News, Kent Today, Northampton Chronicle, Brecon & Radnor Express, Burnley Chronicle, Mid Wales Journal, the South Shropshire Journal and the Doncaster Free Press. I also syndicated a daily political pocket cartoon to Brighton Argus, Derby Evening Telegraph, Portsmouth Evening News & the Worcester Evening News.

In-between these jobs I also drew and produced work for many other companies and organisations, producing anything from a simple line drawing to six episodes of storybook illustrations for TV. Some of these clients are as follows: BBC Children’s TV (Six shows titled Maxwell Zammer) Daily Mirror (I wrote a daily comic strip called Girl Chat) NHS Health Promotion Trusts (nationwide) Hanson White (Greeting card publishers) Ogilvy & Mather (Advertising for Euro Tunnel) 20th Century Fox (Cartoon strip advertising for their movie ‘the 3 Amigos’).

Comic Books: I was asked, around 10 years ago by the editor of the Dandy (the world’s longest running comic) to illustrate the top iconoclastic character, Beryl the Peril. From there I went on to produce many other stars in the fun size comics, annuals and summer specials. Around 7 years ago I was asked to co-create a new character that, after his first 6 months became, and has remained one of the top character in the comic. His name was Ollie Fliptrik and he’s still running.
Later, a European publisher invited me to produce two book collections of my own cartoons and two years later I’d secured a contract to write and illustrate 3 graphic novels called Brabbles and Boggitt; tales about a ridiculously over confident yellow mouse and a doom and gloom curmudgeon of a caterpillar for the European children’s market; the first was published in May 2005 the second was released in March 2006. The third was scheduled for early 2007

Most recently I’ve finished a 42 page graphic novel about the inhabitants of a medieval castle and it went into production on June 2007; sales are already very promising and more books are well into the production stage.