@schrankartoons
About the artist : Swiss-born Peter Schrank is an internationally award winning political cartoonist. He spent twenty years as a freelance cartoonist and illustrator in London. He now lives in Norwich, Norfolk. Schrank was political cartoonist for The Independent on Sunday, and more occasionally the Independent, 1995 to 2016, for Business Post in Ireland from 1990 to 2021 and Basler Zeitung in Switzerland 1993 to 2019. He continues to work regularly for The Economist (London) and The Times , and most recently for Encompass, the Brussels-based online publisher. A book of his cartoons (An Independent Line, with Dave Brown and Tim Sanders), was published by the Political Cartoon Society in 2008. Currently his work is featured in The Best of Britain’s Political Cartoons of 2023, published by Hutchinson/Penguin. His cartoon in The Times on the plight of women in Afghanistan was voted best cartoon at The Political Cartoon of the Year Awards in 2021. When not drawing he enjoys playing the guitar and messing around on boats. Categories: