Mike Mosedale trained in graphic design in the late 70s and early 80s, specialising in illustration. Having graduated and taken time out to travel he then set up a graphic studio with a fellow college conspirator based south of London. There followed several fruitful years producing visuals, designs and finished artwork for a wide diversity of clients.

The joys of slicing your finger with a number 5a scalpel blade, sifting through reams of half used pantone letraset sheets to find the missing match and spraymounting your feet with toxic chemical glue can only be dreamed of now. As for grant enlargers and PMT machines...what a sad loss! Dried up magic markers and rotring pens that worked at best when shaken so furiously most of the contents ended up on the ceiling. Couriers that would turn up on a whim and when you did have an urgent delivery do their level best to drop or bend your precious artwork. Thank heavens for computers that can only crash!

Amongst this mayhem Mike found he was being increasingly called upon to produce illustrations and by a process of evolution humorous illustrations and cartoons. By the 1990's this became a full time occupation working mainly for newspapers, Advertsising Agencies, Public Relations groups and publishing houses. His Newspaper cartoons, for the most part apolitical, though often topical, appeared in the Times, Sunday Times, The European, The Economist, The Sporting Life, The Evening Standard, The Telegraph, The Independent and The Times Educational Supplement. His strips have run in wide variety of trade magazines, ranging from motoring titles, Travel, Law and medical and insurance. He has illustrated childrens' books and childrens sections of weekend papers including The Young Telegraph and Mega in the Saturday Times, produced greetings cards, both seasonal and general for some of the major manufacturers. In addition he has also been commissioned to produce caricatures for the well known, and not so well known- usually as company presentaions for retirement, promotion or landmark birthdays.