Artist Info
Peter Brookes
Peter D. Brookes, CBE
English cartoonist who has produced work for numerous publications, including Radio Times, New Society, New Statesman, The Spectator, and, most notably, The Times, for which he has been the leader-page cartoonist since 1992. He has won the title of Cartoonist of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2012, 2011, 2010, 2007, and 2002. On 12 October 2017 he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 21st Cartoon Art Trust Awards.
After school, he initially joined the RAF to train as a pilot and studied for a University of London BA degree at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell, but left to go to art college in Manchester. He then attended the Central School of Art and Design in London.