Steve Bell was born in Walthamstow in 1951. He studied art at the Teeside College of Art and Leeds University, where he graduated in 1974. Three years later, he became an art teacher in Birmingham. He started his comics career drawing for magazines Whoopee, Cheeky and Jackpot in 1978. In 1979, he came up with the anti-Tory comic 'Maggie's Farm' (referring to Margaret Thatcher) for radical magazine Private Eye. In 1981, Bell started his own daily strip 'If...' in the Guardian newspaper. Steve Bell was voted Humorous Strip Cartoonist of the Year 1984. Some of his book titles are 'Waiting for the Old Uptown' (1986), 'Magie's Farm: the Last roundup' (1987) and 'Funny Old World' (1991).
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