Steven Appleby
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Steven Appleby is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Britain. He is a dual citizen of the UK and Canada. His humour is usually observational or absurd.
His work first appeared in the New Musical Express in 1984 with the Captain Star
Captain Star
Captain Star was an animated television series starring Richard E. Grant as Captain Jim Star, based on a comic by Steven Appleby: Rockets Passing Overhead. Only thirteen episodes of thirty-minutes each were produced and aired. The series ran on the British ITV and Canadian TELETOON networks from...
comic strip, which was made into an animated cartoon series in 1997. Captain Star
Captain Star
Captain Star was an animated television series starring Richard E. Grant as Captain Jim Star, based on a comic by Steven Appleby: Rockets Passing Overhead. Only thirteen episodes of thirty-minutes each were produced and aired. The series ran on the British ITV and Canadian TELETOON networks from...
also appeared in The Observer
The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
, Zeit Magazin, and various comics in the UK, Europe and America. Other comic strips appeared in many publications including The Times
The Times
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and the Sunday Telegraph
Sunday Telegraph
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. The strip Loomus can currently be seen in The Guardian
The Guardian
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. His work has also appeared on album covers, most notably on Trompe le Monde
Trompe le Monde
Trompe le Monde is the fourth and final album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in 1991 on the English independent record label 4AD in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States...
by the Pixies.
His series of cartoons Steven Appleby's Normal Life was successful enough not only to be translated into German and published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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, but also to be made into a radio series for BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
. An earlier series, Small Birds Singing, which ran for eight years in 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...
, concerned itself with the usually surreal doings of the occupants of an English country house.
Appleby has also had many exhibitions of paintings, published over 20 books and collaborated on a musical play, Crocs In Frocks (with Teresa Early and Roger Gosling), which was staged in Camberwell and at the ICA
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Institute of Contemporary Arts is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. It is located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch...
, London in 2006.
His most recent book, The Coffee Table Book Of Doom (with co-author Art Lester), was published by Square Peg (an imprint of Random House) in November 2011.
Selected bibliography
- Normal Sex 1994 ISBN 0-7475-1898-X
- Men: The Truth 1995 ISBN 0-7475-2251-0
- Happy Families 1996 ISBN 0-7475-2604-4
- The Secret Thoughts of Babies 1996 ISBN 0-7475-5855-8
- The Secret Thoughts of CatsThe Secret Thoughts of CatsThe Secret Thoughts of Cats was written and illustrated by Steven Appleby, and first published in 1996.Also known as the Infinite Subtlety of Cat Expressions, it focuses on the fact that cat expressions are always the same, no matter what the situation...
1996 ISBN 0-7475-5850-7 - The Secret Thoughts of Dogs 1996 ISBN 0-7475-5870-1
- The Secret Thoughts of Men 1996 ISBN 0-7475-2969-8
- The Secret Thoughts of Women 1996 ISBN 0-7475-2968-X
- Antmen Carry away my Thoughts as soon as I think them 1996 ISBN 0-7475-3740-2
- The Secret Thoughts 1997 ISBN 0-7475-3491-8
- Alien Invasion:Steven Appleby's Guide to Having Children 1999 ISBN 0-7475-4455-7
- Encyclopedia of Personal Problems 2000 ISBN 0-7475-5067-0
- The Truth About Love 2000 ISBN 0-7475-4833-1
- Steven Appleby's Normal Life 2001 ISBN 0-7475-5614-8
- Mr Concerned's Book of Home Therapy 2002 ISBN 0-7475-6073-0
- A Book of Machinese Whispers 2006 ISBN 1-905847-01-7
- The Nine Lives of a Dysfunctional Cat 2003 ISBN 0-7475-6935-5
- ABC of Childhood 2005 ISBN 0-7475-7604-1
- The Little Book of Farts 2006 ISBN 0-7475-8245-9
- The Captain StarCaptain StarCaptain Star was an animated television series starring Richard E. Grant as Captain Jim Star, based on a comic by Steven Appleby: Rockets Passing Overhead. Only thirteen episodes of thirty-minutes each were produced and aired. The series ran on the British ITV and Canadian TELETOON networks from...
Omnibus 2008 ISBN 9780973950564
The Coffee Table Book Of Doom 2011