Bill Stott at the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival.
British cartoonist Bill Stott passed away on August 25th. He began as an art teacher in Liverpool, and by the 1970s, was selling cartoons to Punch Magazine.
"I wasn’t good enough to get a place at any prestigious London colleges, so did what many before me have done and became an Art teacher. In Liverpool. Which is when cartooning began. When Punch magazine gave me money for a cartoon, I began a double life, teaching when it was light and drawing cartoons when it wasn’t. Bill Tidy, Mike and Pete Williams, and Albert Rusling were all Liverpool-ish based then and I’ve been greatly influenced by them." -- from his bio.
"He was a founding member of the Professional Cartoonists’ Organization and a member of the organizing committee of the Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival – known best for it’s live cartooning sessions, where cartoonist create large-scale cartoons in the public square allowing visitors to watch cartoonists at work."
Pete Dredge:
"I served on one of the first PCO committees and those interminable committee meetings at Birmingham’s Custard Factory location were pretty much held together by Bill’s calm, stoical, Zen-like demeanour while others frothed at the mouth, succumbed to brain fog or full-on comatosis.
"Bill was many things, prolific being one of them, and he leaves a large legacy. Hopefully that long cherished Chris Beetles One Man Exhibition will come about one day. [Ed: More Stott cartoons can be see here on the Chris Beetles Gallery website]
"Thanks for the memories Mr. Stott."
"Bill was many things, prolific being one of them, and he leaves a large legacy. Hopefully that long cherished Chris Beetles One Man Exhibition will come about one day. [Ed: More Stott cartoons can be see here on the Chris Beetles Gallery website]
"Thanks for the memories Mr. Stott."
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