Kev F. Sutherland

Kev F Sutherland
Born (1961-10-18) 18 October 1961 (age 63)
Aberdeen, Scotland
Mediumtelevision, theatre, radio, comic books
NationalityScottish
Genrescomedy
Notable works and rolesThe Sitcom Trials
The Beano
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
Websitecomicfestival.co.uk

Kev F. Sutherland (born 18 October 1961) is a Scottish comedian, caricaturist, and comic strip creator. He has drawn for a variety of publications, including The Beano. He has produced several shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including The Sitcom Trials and The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre.

Early life

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He was born in Aberdeen and raised from age 6 in the village of Kibworth in Leicestershire. His paternal grandmother was the writer and photographer Jean Sutherland. In 1983 he graduated from Exeter College of Art and Design.

Early career

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Sutherland got his start in the world of British comics fandom, contributing artwork and humour columns to fanzines like BEM and Fantasy Advertiser in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

From 1993 to 1998, Sutherland shared a studio with Marvel & DC Comics artist Mark Buckingham .[1]

From 1999 to 2004, he was the producer of the UK's Comic Festival[2] in Bristol. Beginning as Comics 99,[3][4] it included the National Comics Awards[5] which he co-founded in 1997.[6] For Comics 99, Sutherland produced The World's Biggest Comic[7] which featured the work of 100 of the world's leading comic artists,[8] auctioned to raise money for Comic Relief.[9]

Comics career

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His comic strips appear in the UK comic The Beano,[10] chiefly comedy adventures starring The Bash Street Kids, with Dennis The Menace, Roger the Dodger and Minnie the Minx. In 2011, Sutherland drew Match magazine's Galaxy Wanderers strip, and Find It in Doctor Who Adventures.

His debut graphic novel Findlay Macbeth was published in 2020,[11] followed by The Prince Of Denmark Street,[12] The Midsummer Night's Dream Team, Comic Tales From The Bible, and Richard The Third.

Sutherland's previous comic strip work includes Star Trek[13] Ghost Rider 2099[14] and Doctor Strange for Marvel Comics,[15] UT which he also edited,[16] Goosebumps for The Funday Times, educational illustration for Scholastic and HarperCollins, Zig and Zag's Zogazine, Red Dwarf Smegazine[17] (both for Fleetway), and miscellaneous strips for Doctor Who Magazine, Oink,[18] Viz, Gas, 2000AD, Warrior, Gladiators (based on the LWT TV series), The Worm The World's Longest Comic Strip[19] and many more.

His self-published titles include The Hawk (1983), The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre comic (2008), Sinnerhound (2011), Hot Rod Cow (2011), and the local comic Captain Clevedon[20][21] (2011).

In 2007 he wrote Billy the Cat vs General Jumbo in The Beano Annual. In 2008 his Bash St Zombies original art was exhibited as part of the Comic Timing exhibition at Harrods in London.[22]

Since 2003,[23] Sutherland has presented his Comic Art Masterclasses[24][25] in schools and colleges,[26][27] and festivals[28] educating students from seven years old to adult[29] in the art of the comic strip.[30][31][32] He appears regularly in the media as an authority on comics.[33] He has spoken about the use of comic art in education at a number of Boys Writing Conferences,[34] in 2009 he helped devise a unit for a Creative & Media Diploma course,[35] in 2011 he presented the first of the Stan Lee Excelsior Awards in Sheffield,[36] and in 2012 he helped open the new gallery at the BRIT School in Croydon.[37]

Performance career

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From 1994 to 2004, Sutherland was a regular compere at Bristol's Comedy Box, where he developed the audience interactive game show Win Some Beer.

He created The Sitcom Trials in 1999, on stage in London and Bristol, at the Edinburgh Fringe 2001, 2002 and 2004, and in Hollywood in 2005.[38] It continues on stage at the Leicester Square Theatre in London's West End.

Since 2005, Sutherland has written, produced and performed as The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre,[39][40] appearing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2007, 2008, 2009,[41] 2010,[42] 2012,[43] 2103 - 16, 2018, 19, & 22 and in theatres internationally[44] and on television.[45] His TV work includes The Sitcom Trials[46] and A-Z of Rude Health for ITV.

In 2009 he made an attempt at the Guinness World Record[47] for telling jokes in one hour, in support of Comic Relief.

Selected TV

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Selected comics

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  • 2000 AD – very early (still at school) work on Captain Klep, 1981
  • Oink[18] – first published work 1988
  • Gas (1989–1991) – Tales of Nambygate, Phallas The Soap Opera[48]
  • Red Dwarf Smegazine (1992–1994)
  • UT (mid-1990s)
  • The World's Biggest Comic (1999) – charity production for Comic Relief & Comics 99[49]
  • Goosebumps wrote strip adaptation in Funday Times
  • Toxic – Hot Rod Cow (a character which has been referenced in Sutherland's Beano strips)
  • The Beano – Parents Evening in Beano Annual 2007; Pluggy Love & Billy The Cat vs General Jumbo in Beano Annual 2008; Roger The Dodger's Reservoir Dodge in Beano Annual 2009. Notable stories in the weekly Beano include Ickle Bitty Werewolf on Bash Street (3320–3322), School's Out (3316–3319), The Night Before Christmas (3310), Invasion of the Beano Snatchers (3421–3424), At Her Majesty's Pleasure (3335), The Ofsted Inspector (3366–3369), Scary Story (3353–3356) and The Bash Street Zombies (3410–3412)
  • Doctor Who Magazine
  • Viz – wrote & drew Tarquin Hoylet, He Has To Go to the Toilet
  • Doctor Strange, Star Trek, Werewolf by Night, Ghost Rider 2099 (Marvel)

References

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Notes

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  1. ^ "Buckingham The Trend". Comics Bulletin. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
  2. ^ "Chimpanzees on Speed, Kev Sutherland interview". Engine Comics. September 2004.
  3. ^ Garner, Clare (23 February 1999). "Why Batman Is Really A Turkey". The Independent. London.
  4. ^ "UK Convention Saviour". Sequential Tart. May 1999.
  5. ^ "National Comics Awards 2002". 2000AD. 2002. Archived from the original on 16 February 2006. Retrieved 28 October 2007.
  6. ^ Chris Wilson (16 March 1997). "Dennis the Menace zaps Dan Dare". Sunday Telegraph London.[dead link‍]
  7. ^ "Having a beano at the comics festival". Western Daily Press. 3 April 1999.
  8. ^ "The World's Biggest Comic". Blue Peter, BBC Television. 1 April 1999.
  9. ^ "A giant comic strip". Bristol Evening Post. 10 March 1999.
  10. ^ "Seventy Years of Comical Capers". Western Daily Press. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2008.
  11. ^ "Findlay Macbeth". Amazon. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  12. ^ "Prince of Denmark Street Review". GoodReads. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  13. ^ "Star Trek Comic". Star Trek Comics Guide. November 1996.
  14. ^ "Ghost Rider 2099". Collectorz.com. May 1996. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012.
  15. ^ "Marvel Comics by Kev F Sutherland". Comic Vine. May 2007.
  16. ^ "Is Viz Still The Biz?". BBC News. 15 October 1998.
  17. ^ "Red Dwarf Smegazine". Atomic Avenue. 1 May 1993.
  18. ^ a b "Oink comic". Retro Dundee. Retrieved 25 February 2010.
  19. ^ "The Worm – World's Longest Comic". Mars Import. January 1999. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  20. ^ Samantha Pope. "Clevedon gets its own superhero". North Somerset Times. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
  21. ^ John Freeman. "Captain Clevedon: A local comic for local people". Down The Tubes. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
  22. ^ "Comic Timing Exhibition at Harrods". London List. Retrieved 17 October 2008.
  23. ^ Wanda Opalinska. "No Laughing Matter". Times Educational Supplement. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2003.
  24. ^ Emma Hardwick. "Beano comic cartoonist wows crowd in Welwyn Garden City". Welwyn and Hatfield Times. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
  25. ^ "Superheroes turn up as Kev Sutherland visits Rivermead Primary". Get Wokingham. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  26. ^ "Marlborough Pupils Win Silver". This Is Wiltshire. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
  27. ^ "Caricatures, Comics and the Illustrator of the Beano!". Burgess Hill School For Girls. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2011.
  28. ^ "Comic Artist Is Quick on the Draw". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 3 May 2011.
  29. ^ "CCA Comic Masterclass with Beano Cartoonist Kev F". Capital City Academy. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
  30. ^ "Beano visit for pupils". Okehampton Times. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
  31. ^ "Pupils Enjoy Comic Masterclass". Malvern Gazette. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
  32. ^ "Beano illustrator passes on tips". This Is Wiltshire. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
  33. ^ "Dennis Without The Menace Bad Idea". Bristol Evening Post. Archived from the original on 19 August 2009. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
  34. ^ "Comic Book Kids". Wakefield Express. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  35. ^ "Comic Artist, Kev Sutherland, Visits The Earls High School". The Earls High School. Archived from the original on 3 May 2009. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  36. ^ "Legendary comic creator helps reading scheme go global". Sheffield Star. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  37. ^ "Comic creator's workshop marks Croydon gallery opening". Croydon Guardian. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
  38. ^ "Writers, are you game for a laugh?". BBC Gloucestershire. Retrieved 5 April 2002.
  39. ^ "Comic socks it to Barton audience". Scunthorpe Telegraph. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
  40. ^ "4 star Edinburgh Review 09". The Scotsman. Retrieved 13 August 2009.
  41. ^ "Comedy Judges 'myopic' for Pleasance picks". The Scotsman. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
  42. ^ "Comic artist turns hand to pupperty in Caernarfon". North Wales Chronicle. Archived from the original on 27 November 2010. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
  43. ^ Alison Pollard-Mansergh. "5 Star Edinburgh Review". Edinburgh Evening News. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  44. ^ "Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre coming to Ropery Hall". This Is Grimsby. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
  45. ^ Lee Randall. "Edinburgh Festival Interview". The Scotsman. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
  46. ^ *"More from Sitcom Trials". bbc.co.uk – Bristol. Retrieved 5 May 2005.
  47. ^ "Guinness World Record Attempt". bbc.co.uk – Bristol. 18 February 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2009.
  48. ^ "Tales of Nambygate". Indy Planet. 1 November 2011. Archived from the original on 25 October 2011. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
  49. ^ "Having a laugh is taken as read". Bristol Evening Post. 2 April 1999.

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