Paul Cemmick

Paul Cemmick is a cartoonist and caricaturist whose designs and work have been seen in many different media, most prominently animation, (British) comics and book covers. According to the website ChildrensIllustrators.com [ [http://www2.childrensillustrators.com/illustrator.cgi/pcemmick Paul Cemmick at ChildrensIllustrators.com] . Accessed December, 2007] , Mr Cemmick "started drawing cartoons as a child by copying Popeye, Tom and Jerry and Yogi Bear from his gran’s TV."

Books

Maid Marian and Her Merry Men

Arguably his best-known credit is for the well-loved BBC children's series "Maid Marian and Her Merry Men", for which he provided the artwork for the famous closing credits. Concurrent with the series' run during 1989-1993, Mr Cemmick illustrated eight comics adapted from the programme's scripts by series creator and lead writer Tony Robinson. In 2006-2007 he produced four all-new mini-comics which were included in the each of the four series DVD releases from [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/ Eureka Entertainment] . See Bibliography (below) for details.

Covers

Mr Cemmick's best-known cover artwork adorns several of the later covers of Tom Holt's comic-fantasy novels, published by Orbit Books in the UK. [ [http://www.rumil.de/holt/ Covers of Tom Holt's novels] . Accessed December, 2007] Mr Cemmick was the third regular Holt cover-artist, following in the footsteps of Josh Kirby and Steve Lee. Mr Holt explained the transition from Lee to Cemmick being due to "some sort of falling-out between [Lee] and the Orbit people" after his novel "Open Sesame" (1997). [ [http://stason.org/TULARC/education-books/tom-holt/18-Who-is-Tom-Holt-s-cover-artist.html Tom Holt FAQ] . Accessed December, 2007]

Cartoons

Cemmick's cartoons and caricatures have appeared on numerous occasions in the UK Sci-Fi magazine SFX, and publications including "Take a Break" magazine. He co-created "N.U.T.S. Investigations" with Spitting Image and 2DTV alumnus Giles Pilbrow for the The Sunday Times, and has produced full comicstrip artwork for several BBC magazines, including "Girl Talk" and "It's Hot". These official BBC comicstrips include adaptations of EastEnders, adventures of the Blue Peter pets, and most recently (as an interesting semi-follow-up to his work on MM&HMM), the latest BBC One version of "Robin Hood" (2006) in 'Robin Hood Adventures' issue 1 (BBC Magazines, 10-23 October 2007).

Television Credits

In television, he has worked on Spitting Image as well as the afore-mentioned Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. He was also one of the designers and three main artists on the ITV television series "2DTV" (2001), working on that programme for all of its five series'. [ [http://www.2dtv.co.uk/KeyPersonnel.htm 2DTV Personnel List] . Accessed December, 2007] He recently designed the logo for the revamped ITV animated series [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1051279/ Emu] (2007) starring Emu, Rod Hull's famous sidekick. [ [http://picture-book.com/node/4114 Paul Cemmick's design for the Emu logo at Picture-Book.com] . Accessed December, 2007]

Other

In his spare time he and Mark Harrison are in a band called "2BC", which produces music of an "Electro/Comedy/Electronica" hue. [ [http://www.myspace.com/2bcmusicuk 2BC Band Page at MySpace Music] . Accessed December, 2007]

He lives in Hove with a stuffed piranha.

Bibligraphy

Maid Marian and Her Merry Men

Written (and adapted) by Tony Robinson, illustrated by Paul Cemmick. Published by the BBC and Penguin Character Books Ltd. between 1989 and 1992.

*"How the Band got Together" (Penguin Character Books/BBC (Nov 1989)) ISBN 0-563-20808-2
*"Robert the Incredible Chicken" (Penguin Character Books/BBC (Nov 1989)) ISBN 0-563-20809-0
*"The Whitish Knight" (Penguin Character Books/BBC (Oct 1990)) ISBN 0-563-36040-2
*"The Beast of Bolsover" (BBC/Penguin Character Books (Oct 1990)) ISBN 0-563-36041-0
*"The Worksop Egg Fairy" (Penguin Character Books/BBC (Oct 1991)) ISBN 0-563-36220-0
*"Rabies in Love" (BBC/Penguin Character Books (Oct 1991)) ISBN 0-563-36219-7
*"It Came From Outer Space" (Penguin Character Books/BBC (Nov 1992)) ISBN 0-563-36709-1
*"Driving Ambition and Keeping Mum" (Penguin Character Books/BBC (Nov 1992)) ISBN 0-563-36710-5

Other Illustrations

* "The Funny Side of Teaching" by Stirling Johnstone and Paul Cemmick, with an introduction by Ronnie Corbett (Stevenson Publications Ltd (Oct 1995)) ISBN 0-952-63950-5
* "The "Funday Times" Fantastic Fun Book" by Richard Lloyd-Perry and Paul Cemmick (Boxtree) ISBN 1-852-83858-2
* "Crocodile" by Rachel Ward and Paul Cemmick (Quadrillion Media, LLC (Jun 1999)) ISBN 1-841-00210-0
* "Hippo" by Rachel Ward and Paul Cemmick (Quadrillion Media, LLC (Jun 1999)) ISBN 1-841-00211-9
* "Panda" by Rachel Ward and Paul Cemmick (Quadrillion Media, LLC (Jun 1999)) ISBN 1-841-00213-5
* "Tiger" by Rachel Ward and Paul Cemmick (Quadrillion Media, LLC (Jun 1999)) ISBN 1-841-00212-7
* "The Ultimate Scooter Guide" by Ben Sharpe and Paul Cemmick (Scholastic (Jan 2001)) ISBN 0-439-28554-2
* "Pulp Idol" (SFX (2006))
* "Choices, choices..." by Dawne Allette and Paul Cemmick (Tamarind Books Limited (Jul 2007)) ISBN 1-870-51683-4

Covers

* "Wish You Were Here" by Tom Holt HB (Orbit (1998)) PB (Orbit (1998)) ISBN 1-85723-687-4
* "Only Human" by Tom Holt HB (Orbit (1999)) PB (Orbit (2000)) ISBN 1-85723-949-0
* "Snow White and the Seven Samurai" by Tom Holt HB (Orbit (Dec 1999)) ISBN 1-85723-898-2 PB (Orbit (Jun 2000) ISBN 1-85723-988-1
* "Valhalla" by Tom Holt HB (Orbit (Jun 2000)) ISBN 1-857-23983-0 PB (Orbit (May 2001)) ISBN 1-84149-042-3
* "Nothing But Blue Skies" by Tom Holt HB (Orbit (May 2001)) ISBN 1-84149-040-7 PB (Orbit (2001)) ISBN 1-84149-058-X
* "Falling Sideways" by Tom Holt HB (Orbit (2002)) ISBN 1-84149-087-3 PB (Orbit (2002)) ISBN 1-84149-110-1

External links

* [http://www.paulcemmick.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www2.childrensillustrators.com/illustrator.cgi/pcemmick Paul Cemmick at ChildrensIllustrators.com]
* [http://www.myspace.com/2bcmusicuk Paul 'Smooth' Cemmick and Mark 'Heavy' Harrison's band "2BC" at MySpace Music]
* [http://www.brightonillustratorsgroup.com/indexframe.asp?aid=54 A small portfolio of Paul Cemmick's work at the Brighton Illustrator's Group] mirrored [http://www.illustrator.org.uk/artist.asp?aid=54 here]
* [http://picture-book.com/imagelist/140 A small portfolio of Paul Cemmick's work at Picture-Book.com, the Directory of Children's Illustration]
* [http://www.jacketflap.com/persondetail.asp?person=122278 A very short - and incomplete - list of Paul Cemmick's cover artwork]

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