Tony Husband
William Anthony Husband is a British cartoonist known for black humour. His cartoons appear on greeting cards, and he has a regular cartoon strip in Private Eye entitled Yobs that has been published since the late 1980s. He co-wrote the Round the Bend children's television series, which ran from 1989 to 1991, and was also involved with Hangar 17, which ran from 1992 to 1994. He has won The Cartoon Museum's Pont Award.
Husband was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, and attended Holy Trinity CE Primary School. in Hyde. He later attended Greenfield Street School in Hyde, Greater Manchester. He married Carole Garner in 1976. They have one son, photographer Paul Husband, with whom Tony wrote the book From A Dark Place. Tony became a full-time cartoonist in 1984.
