Since 2005, Sutherland has written, produced and performed as The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, appearing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012 in theatres internationally and on television. His TV work includes The Sitcom Trials and A-Z of Rude Health for ITV. His comic strips appear in the UK comic The Beano, chiefly comedy adventures starring The Bash Street Kids, with Dennis The Menace, Roger the Dodger and Minnie the Minx. In 2011 Kev drew Match magazine's Galaxy Wanderers strip, and Find It in Doctor Who Adventures. His debut graphic novel Findlay Macbeth was published in 2020. Sutherland's previous comic strip work includes Star TrekGhost Rider 2099 and Doctor Strange for Marvel Comics, UT which he also edited, Goosebumps for The Funday Times, educational illustration for Scholastic and Harper Collins, Zig and Zag's Zogazine, Red Dwarf Smegazine, and miscellaneous strips for Doctor Who Magazine, Oink, Viz, Gas, 2000AD, Warrior, Gladiators, The Worm The World's Longest Comic Strip and many more. His self-published titles include The Hawk, The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre comic, Sinnerhound, Hot Rod Cow, and the local comic Captain Clevedon. In 2007 he wrote Billy the Cat vs General Jumbo in The Beano Annual. In 2008 his Bash St Zombies original art was exhibited as part of the Comic Timing exhibition at Harrods in London. From 1993 to 1998 Kev shared a studio with Marvel & DC Comics artist Mark Buckingham Since 2003, Sutherland has presented his Comic Art Masterclasses in schools and colleges, and festivals educating students from 7 years old to adult in the art of the comic strip. He appears regularly in the media as an authority on comics. He has spoken about the use of comic art in education at a number of Boys Writing Conferences, in 2009 helped devise a unit for a Creative & Media Diploma course, in 2011 presented the first of the Stan Lee Excelsior Awards in Sheffield, and in 2012 helped open the new gallery at the BRIT School in Croydon. He created The Sitcom Trials in 1999, on stage in London and Bristol, at the Edinburgh Fringe 2001, 2002 and 2004, and in Hollywood in 2005. It continues on stage at the Leicester Square Theatre in London's West End. From 1999 to 2004, Sutherland was the producer of the UK's Comic Festival in Bristol. Beginning as Comics 99, it included the National Comics Awards which he co-founded in 1997. For Comics 99 Kev produced The World's Biggest Comic which featured the work of 100 of the world's leading comic artists, auctioned to raise money for Comic Relief. Sutherland is also a comedian and caricaturist. From 1994 to 2004, Sutherland was a regular compere at Bristol's Comedy Box, where he developed the audience interactive game show Win Some Beer. In 2009 he made an attempt at the Guinness World Record for telling jokes in one hour, in support of Comic Relief.
Selected TV
Battle of the Books
The One Show
The Sitcom Trials
A-Z of Rude Health
Comedy Shuffle – as The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
The Culture Show – as The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
Upstaged – as The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
Selected comics
Oink – first published work 1988
The Beano – Parents Evening in Beano Annual 2007; Pluggy Love & Billy The Cat vs General Jumbo in Beano Annual 2008; Roger The Dodger's Reservoir Dodge in Beano Annual 2009. Notable stories in the weekly Beano include Ickle Bitty Werewolf on Bash Street, School's Out, The Night Before Christmas, Invasion of the Beano Snatchers, At Her Majesty's Pleasure, The Ofsted Inspector, Scary Story and The Bash Street Zombies
The World's Biggest Comic – charity production for Comic Relief & Comics 99
Red Dwarf Smegazine
Doctor Who Magazine
Viz – wrote & drew Tarquin Hoylet, He Has To Go to the Toilet
