Paul Cemmick is a cartoonist and caricaturist whose designs and work have been seen in many different media, most prominently animation, comics and book covers. According to the website ChildrensIllustrators.com, Mr Cemmick "started drawing cartoons as a child by copying Popeye, Tom and Jerry and Yogi Bear from his gran’s TV."
Arguably his best-known credit is for the well-loved BBC children's series Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, for which he provided the artwork for the famous closing credits. Concurrent with the series' run during 1989-1993, Mr Cemmick illustrated eight comics adapted from the programme's scripts by series creator and lead writer Tony Robinson. In 2006-2007 he produced four all-new mini-comics which were included in each of the four series DVD releases from . See Bibliography for details.
Covers
Mr Cemmick's best-known cover artwork adorns several of the later covers of Tom Holt's comic-fantasy novels, published by Orbit Books in the UK. Mr Cemmick was the third regular Holt cover-artist, following in the footsteps of Josh Kirby and Steve Lee. Mr Holt explained the transition from Lee to Cemmick being due to "some sort of falling-out between and the Orbit people" after his novel "Open Sesame".
Cartoons
Cemmick's cartoons and caricatures appear regularly in the UK Sci-Fi magazine SFX, and publications including "Take a Break" magazine. He co-created "N.U.T.S. Investigations" with Spitting Image and 2DTV alumnus Giles Pilbrow for The Sunday Times, and has produced full comicstrip artwork for several BBC magazines, including "Girl Talk" and "It's Hot". These official BBC comicstrips include adaptations of EastEnders, adventures of the Blue Peter pets, and most recently, the latest BBC One version of Robin Hood in 'Robin Hood Adventures' issue 1. Paul is currently producing 2 comic strips in the weekly BBC publication Match of the Day. As well as a double page comic strip in a new magazine based on the massively successful TV show Top Gear. The mag is called Top Gear Turbo.
Television Credits
In television, he has worked on Spitting Image as well as the afore-mentioned Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. He was also one of the designers and three main artists on the ITVtelevision series2DTV, working on that programme for all of its five series'. He recently designed the logo for the revamped ITV animated series starring Emu, Rod Hull's famous sidekick.
Other
In his spare time he and Mark Harrison are in a band called "2BC", which produces music of an "Electro/Comedy/Electronica" hue.
Maid Marian and Her Merry Men
Written by Tony Robinson, illustrated by Paul Cemmick. Published by the BBC and Penguin Character Books Ltd. between 1989 and 1992.
