Knife and Packer are Duncan McCoshan and Jem Packer, best known as illustrators/ writers of children's books and cartoonists.

McCosham and Packer first began working together in 1993 on various cartoons and cartoon strips for or UK newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

and The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times

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. The It's Grim Up North London cartoon strip, satirising the growth of 'Islington trendies', was one of their first collaborative works and has been running in 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,...

magazine since 1999.

Their first children's book was published in 2001 and they have since produced over 30 books, based on characters Zac Zoltan, Captain Fact, Freak Street and Fleabag Monkeyface.

In 2010 they were commissioned by CiTV

CITV

CITV is a British television channel from ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive, as well as commissions and acquisitions. CITV itself is the programming block on the main ITV Network .The CITV channel broadcasts from 06:00 to 18:00...

 to write and illustrate a TV series of their Fleabag Monkeyface characters. The series is scheduled to be transmitted on ITV in Autumn 2011.

Fleabag Monkeyface series

• When Earwax Attacks
• King Pong
• The Creature from the Pink Lagoon
• Invasion of the Grubby Snatchers
• Moldfinger
• The Temple of Baboon

Freak Street series

• Meet The Aliensons
• Meet The Zombiesons
• Meet The Humansons
• Meet The Wizardsons
• Aliensons On Holiday
• Zombiesons On Holiday
• Humansons On Holiday
• Wizardsons on Holiday
• Aliensons Time Travel
• Zombiesons Time Travel
• Humansons Time Machine
• Wizardsons Time Machine

Captain Fact series

• Captain Fact's Space Adventure
• Captain Fact's Creepy-Crawly Adventure
• Captain Fact's Dinosaur Adventure
• Captain Fact's Egyptian Adventure
• Captain Fact's Human Body Adventure
• Captain Fact's Roman Adventure

Zac Zoltan seires

• Return of The Chocoholic Vampires
• Hypno-Dwarves and the Night of the Living Bed

Cartoon strips

• BBC History Magazine: I Wish I’d Said That
• Preposterous Properties - The Times
  The Times
  The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
  
  
• Perfect Couple - The Sunday Times
  The Sunday Times
  The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times...
  
  
• Office Alien - The Guardian
  The Guardian
  The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
  
  
• Bon Viveur - The Oldie
  The Oldie
  The Oldie is a monthly magazine launched in 1992 by Richard Ingrams, who for 23 years was the editor of Private Eye. It carries general interest articles, humour and cartoons, and has an eclectic list of contributors, including James Le Fanu, John Sweeney, Thomas Stuttaford, Virginia Ironside,...
  
  
• Anne Finally - New Statesman
  New Statesman
  New Statesman is a British centre-left political and cultural magazine published weekly in London. Founded in 1913, and connected with leading members of the Fabian Society, the magazine reached a circulation peak in the late 1960s....
  
  
• Curator's Egg - Museums Journal

External links

• Knife and Packer official website (http://www.knifeandpacker.com/)