John Fardell
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John Fardell (born 1967)Books from Scotland. [http://www.booksfromscotland.com/Authors/John-Fardell Retrieved 4 April 2012.] is an English cartoonist, and author and illustrator of children's books.
Work
Fardell has been a regular contributor to the adult comic Viz, and has created and drawn two of the most popular and long-running strips, The Modern Parents and The Critics, and also Ferdinand the Foodie and Desert Island Teacher. His strip The Modern Parents portrays the way a mother and father insist on bringing up their young sons by following a doctrine they term "ethical awareness", much to the children's detriment. He also contributed illustrations and comic strips to 1990s video game magazine Electric Brain.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/Electric-Brain|title=Electric Brain - Video Game Magazine|date=1993}}
Fardell is also an author and illustrator of children's books. To date he has produced three children's adventure novels: The Seven Professors of the Far North (2004),{{Cite news |title=Access My Library |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-152888230/seventh-heaven-book-review.html |last=Wall |first=Ian |date=4 August 2004 |work=Property Week |access-date=28 October 2009}} The Flight of the Silver Turtle (2006), and The Secret of the Black Moon Moth (2009) – and three children's picture books: Manfred the Baddie (2008),{{cite news |last=Maxwell |first=Tom |title=The father of invention – John Fardell |url=http://www.scotsman.com/books/The--father-of-invention.4350736.jp |work=The Scotsman |date=3 August 2008 |accessdate=28 October 2009 }} Jeremiah Jellyfish Flies High (2010), and The Day Louis Got Eaten (2011).
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080516175633/http://www.booksfromscotland.com/Authors/John-Fardell/Interview John Fardell interview (Archived)]
- [https://booksfromscotland.com/bfs-author/john-fardell/ John Fardell biography]
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Category:British comics artists
Category:British children's writers
Category:British children's book illustrators
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