Tom McLaughlin: Biography
After studying illustration at Falmouth College of Arts Tom landed a job as the full-time political cartoonist at The Western Morning News, where he spent 9 years happily caricaturing the good, the bad and the down-right ugly of politics. In 2006 he left the paper to become a freelance illustrator and stumbled into the world of animation when he won a bursary to direct his short animated film, The Girl With The Pink Shoes, as part of the Animated Exeter festival. Since then he has gone on to design and create a number of animated TV concepts with Honeycomb Animation, including The 99 Lives Of The Fuzzy Cat, which is in development and Molly Little Mysteries, which has just been picked up by CBeebies and is due to be aired in 2010. As well as these projects Tom has worked as a designer for the animation studio Red Kite, and is about to begin development on a TV project called N.E.R.D.S with them. Recently Tom began to branch out into the world of children’s books and is currently working on a number of publishing ideas from his home in Devon, where he lives with his wife, two sons and scruffy cat.
