'Boyling Point' in the Edinburgh Evening News (readership 200,000) has been running since March 1999 (most of the visual material for the V-books has come from this).

Initially, Frank studied illustration at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee then worked for a year for D.C. Thomson & Co. publishers, Dundee.

After this he moved to London and worked for IPC Magazines, then did a variety of jobs including running a youth club, working in a school as a technician and teaching silkscreen printing in a community arts project in South London.

The self produced comic "Gannets" came out at this time which was about the fight against office development in Southwark at the expense of housing.

After working as the cartoonist for Labour Weekly from 1984-1987, Frank did a weekly strip for Tribune 1988-89 and also several covers for the New Statesman.

He also did a long running cartoon strip called "In Which We Serve" for the National Union of Civil & Public Servants from 1984 - 1997.

From 1988 - 1992 he also did a strip for the TGWU's Landworker called "How Green Were My Wellies" and eventually moved to Glasgow in 1989 and did strip called "Ad Nauseam" for Scotmedia magazine, about an incompetent advertising agency.

He regularly contributed to a political magazine called Radical Scotland.

Newcastle based Sunday Sun ran his cartoons from 1990 - 1998: "Pirate Pete" was a strip drawn for the Daily Record in 1991.

"Postbus Country" by Joan Burnie, Canongate Press 1994 was illustrated by Frank.

His work has appeared in many publications, such as: The Herald, Scotland on Sunday, Sunday Telegraph, Today, Sunday Post etc.
Other clients include Scottish Amicable, IBM, Bank of Scotland, BBC Scotland, Wark Clements, National Library of Scotland, Hibernian FC and Friends of the Earth Scotland.

His cartoons have also featured in Ken Loach's film Carla's Song (1996).

Between 1998 and 2003 Frank also appeared as a stand-up comic on the Scottish circuit, under the name Frank Quinn. He supported acts such as Johnny Vegas, Dara O'Briain and his namesake Frankie Boyle.

In 2002 Frank published his first collection of cartoons called Hooray for Holyrood.

During the UK General Election Campaign of 2005 his work appeared regularly on BBC Newsnight Scotland. It also featured in The Gathering Place, a BBC documentary on the building of the Scottish Parliament.

He was voted Cartoonist of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards in 2003 and 2006. Runner-up in 2002.

Frank's new book, Boyling Point, is now published by Argyll Publishing, price £7.99. This is a collection of cartoons from the Edinburgh Evening News from 2003-2006.
Available in all good bookshops in Scotland and on www.amazon.co.uk

The City Arts Centre in Edinburgh will host a major exhibition of Frank's work from 16th February until 20th April 2008.