
'Boyling
Point' in the Edinburgh Evening News
has been running since March 1999.
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.
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.
Newcastle based Sunday Sun ran his cartoons from 1990 - 1998:
"Pirate Pete" was a strip drawn for the Daily Record
in 1991.
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.
His work has appeared regularly on both the UK and Scottish editions of BBC's Newsnight programme. 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 and Runner-up 2010.
In 2005 one of Frank's cartoons was bought by the National Gallery of Scotland for their permanent collection of drawings.
Frank's second book, Boyling Point, was 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 Art Centre in Edinburgh hosted a major retrospective of Frank's work in spring 2008.
He was recently elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in recognition of his work.
In October 2008 he represented Scotland at the Tourcoing cartoon festival in France, where he was awarded the Trophée d'Honneur.
In 2009 one of Frank's cartoon featured on FoxNews.com.
A one man show of football cartoons is currently on display at Hampden Park, Glasgow.
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