TERRY  ANDERSON

Mailing address:
Terry Anderson
150 Hamilton Road
Mount Vernon
Glasgow

Available for hire as live caricaturist at events, for caricature commissions (birthdays, weddings, retirements etc) as well as political and editorial illustrations.

An ISCA Member since 2007, Terry was born and raised in Paisley, Scotland, and began identifying himself as a cartoonist whilst still at primary school. His professional career began at the age of seventeen, creating cartoon strips for The Herald, the Glasgow-based national broadsheet. He left Scotland in 1995 to pursue his education in the USA.

Terry studied at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art in Dover, New Jersey. The school specialises in comic book artwork, but whilst there he took courses in caricature and animation too, picking up techniques that would greatly inform his drawing style. Terry returned to Scotland and a course of study in Film and Television theory at the University of Glasgow, but this was cut short when he once again began producing cartoon illustrations for The Herald in 1998.

In 1999 young entrepreneur Chris Sommerville opened the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio, and Terry was invited to join as one of the founding members of the Studio's talent pool. Later he would aid Chris in running the business and today works under the title of Studio Co-ordinator, assisting in the development of relationships with the Studio's wide-ranging client base and managing large, collaborative projects. Among the highlights of his recent years with the Studio is representing Scotland at the Salon International de la Caricature, du Dessin de Presse et d' Humour in St.Just-le-Martel, France.

The Studio's caricature work is best known under the title FIZZERS, a local word derived from the French "visage" meaning "face". Conceived by Tommy Sommerville and inspired by the works of continental caricaturists like Sebastian Krüger and Patrice Ricord, Fizzers represents the most ambitious effort ever to raise the profile of the caricature art form in Scotland. Fizzers was formally launched in 2006 with a simultaneous book and exhibition: Fizzers- Famous Scottish Faces Caricatured was published by Mercat Press, now part of Birlinn Ltd and Fizzers: the Alternative Portrait Gallery was shown at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and received some 15,000 visitors over its three months there. Terry contributed over forty caricatures to the show, seventeen of which can be seen in the book. 2009 was the Studio's 10th anniversary year and to mark it another major exhibition entitled Fizzers: Well Kent Scottish Faces was shown at the Peoples' Palace & Winter Gardens in Glasgow, attracting almost 82,000 visitors during a highly successful three month run.

Terry is thirty six years of age and lives with his wife Yasmin in Glasgow.

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