Guy Body.

cartoonist

New Zealand, Born 1967

In short

Guy Keverne Body (born 1967) is a New Zealand cartoonist. Born in Auckland, Body began drawing cartoons while at Takapuna Grammar School: "obscene versions of Sesame Street and The Wombles." At the start of his career, he was advised by the prominent New Zealand cartoonist Sir Gordon Minhinnick to "go somewhere and learn how to draw."` Since 1986 Body has worked in New Zealand and the United Kingdom as a newspaper artist and cartoonist, creating information graphics, graphs, and editorial cartoons in the New Zealand Truth, the Scotsman, the Auckland Star, and the New Zealand Herald. From 2004 he has been the backup editorial cartoonist for the Herald, preparing the Monday cartoon and substituting for Rod Emmerson when needed.