ABOUT FRAN
Fran Orford is a full time cartoonist lucky enough
to live in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire - a town that was intriguingly
voted ‘the fourth funkiest town on the planet’ by BA’s
Flight magazine. None of the ‘funkiness’ can however be
attributed to him although he does claim to have a rather dashing collection
of shorts. Before becoming a cartoonist Fran was a social work manager
running a project for The National Childrens Home based in Halifax and
before that he’d worked with young people in London for an offshoot
of Community Service Volunteers (CSV).
Since taking up his pen 10 years ago his cartoons
have been used by over 80 magazines and newspapers in both the UK and
Europe. He has been published in PRIVATE EYE, THE TIMES, THE SPECTATOR
and NEW STATESMAN as well as having had a regular strip in both THE
OBSERVER and THE DAILY TELEGRAPH.
He is one of the busiest cartoonists working in the
business sector being the cartoonist for THE LAWYER, GP MAGAZINE, MORTGAGE
STRATEGY, COMMUNITY CARE, PENSIONS AGE, INSURANCE AGE and Local Government
FIRST amongst others. He has also worked for many companies helping
them to add a little humour to promotional campaigns, newsletters and
presentations. Fran has also illustrated numerous books, booklets and
pamphlets for a number of local Authorities, not for profit organisations
and Trade Unions.
When not cartooning or having a bit of a sit down
and claiming to be ‘thinking of some ideas’, Fran is very
happily married to Lynette. They have three children and a dog. The
children are not convinced by the ‘thinking of some ideas’
argument and think that their dad is underemployed and therefore should
be available 24 hours a day for general lifts and skivying. When not
pretending to work Fran pretends to do a bit of running and lifting
weights. When he has more time he is going to pretend to do some DIY.
To
have Fran work for you phone 01422 845359
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