Kevin Robert Woodcock was a British

United Kingdom

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 cartoonist

Cartoonist

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Kevin Woodcock was born at Leicester General Hospital. After attending Holmfield Avenue Junior School in Leicester and the Dixie Grammar School in Market Bosworth

Market Bosworth

Market Bosworth is a small market town and civil parish in Leicestershire, England. It formerly formed a district known as the Market Bosworth Rural District. In 1974 it merged with the Hinckley Rural District to form a new district named Hinckley and Bosworth...

, Kevin Woodcock studied at the
Leicester College of Art from 1961 to 1964.

He contributed cartoons to such publications as Private Eye

Private Eye

Private Eye is a fortnightly British satirical and current affairs magazine, edited by Ian Hislop.Since its first publication in 1961, Private Eye has been a prominent critic and lampooner of public figures and entities that it deemed guilty of any of the sins of incompetence, inefficiency,...

, Daily Sketch, The Spectator

The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British magazine first published on 6 July 1828. It is currently owned by David and Frederick Barclay, who also owns The Daily Telegraph. Its principal subject areas are politics and culture...

, Knave,
Fiesta, Brain Damage, Punch

Punch (magazine)

Punch, or the London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 50s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration...

and
The Oldie.

Publications

Additionally, he published three collections of his work: Private Eye Kevin Woodcock (1978), City Rules OK (1983) and You Are Here: the Best of Kevin Woodcock (1987). More than 40 of his single-panel cartoons were reproduced in the Penguin Book of Private Eye Cartoons.