ABOUT

Self portrait 2014

Paul Hatcher started cartooning in 1992 after dropping out of university and has self published comedy comics on and off ever since. He is best known for his 1996 comic pack The World Stare-out Championship Final which was adapted into animated shorts for the 1998 BBC2 comedy sketch show Big Train. After the success of Big Train, the Stare-out was published as a 64 page hardback by Bloomsbury in 2000. A follow up, Chang Gin Ming’sGuide To Referring Stare-out, was published in 2001. Paul has also illustrated magazine articles for Esquire. His short story AZAD was awarded runner up in The 2025 Faber/Observer Graphic Short Story Competition (now known as The Rachel Cooke Prize). Over the years Paul has worked as a printer/photocopier, photographic technician, cinema projectionist, English Teacher (in Spain) and as a full time carer. He is currently writing the scripts for the six issue comedy satire The Adventures of Gilbert & George which is being illustrated by cartoonist Robert Wells. Paul divides his his time between his afternoon warehouse job and his various cartoon projects whilst slowly losing his hair.