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The big picture: toilet humour

Conrad Astley
5/ 5/2006

YOU often expect to find a hastily-scribbled cartoon on the door to a toilet cubicle, but things are slightly different at The Lowry. The Salford arts centre is using toilet cubicle doors to display work by its latest star attraction.

The centre is launching it first ever cartoonist in residence - the award-winning Tony Husband - and visitors can catch him scribbling new creations today (Friday).

The cartoonist will be returning to the Salford arts centre on May 29, but anyone who misses his visits can still enjoy his work, which will be displayed throughout the arts centre from tomorrow (Saturday).

Eighty of Tony's cartoons, including many which he will create while at The Lowry, will be put up in poster frames throughout the centre - 101 of which will be on the back of toilet cubicle doors.

Tony, who lives in Hyde, is best known for his work with Private Eye - particularly for the long running Yobs cartoon - and he also draws daily cartoons for The Times' sport section.

During his long career, his work has also appeared in publications including The Sunday Express, The Daily Express, The Spectator, Golf International, Manchester United Magazine and, of course, Playboy.

He has published more than 20 cartoon books which have been translated into German, Russian, Chinese and Welsh, and along with Patrick Gallagher and Mark Rodgers he created the children's comic Oink! and a 1980s Children's ITV series called Round The Bend.

The series, which was a parody of Saturday morning magazine shows set in a sewer, featuring puppets made by team which made them for Spitting Image, but was cancelled following complaints by Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers' And Listeners' Association about the coarseness of its humour.

He has also co-written a screenplay with Rory McGrath and has been involved in a series of live shows with Barnsley poet Ian McMillan.

Since becoming a full time cartoonist in 1984, he has been given a string of awards including Joke Cartoonist Of The Year three times in a row and Sports Cartoonist Of The Year.

Tony will be in The Lowry Galleries today (Friday) and Bank Holiday Monday, May 29, creating cartoons, so you can drop in and catch him in the act. His witty cartoons will be displayed from Monday.


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