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{{Short description|British cartoonist}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Rick Brookes
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|6|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Bangor, Gwynedd]], Wales
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| nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]]
| known_for = Painter, cartoonist
| training = Salford Art School Manchester
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| patrons = [[Carl Giles|Giles]], [[David Low (cartoonist)|Low]] and [[Raymond Jackson ("JAK")|Jak]]
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'''Rick Brookes''' (born 16 June 1948) is a British satirical cartoonist. Having studied art at Salford Art School, Manchester, he worked first as an assistant art editor for [[Mirabelle]] magazine and then as a graphic artist and designer for IPC magazines such as ''[[Woman's Own]]'', ''Woman's Realm'' and ''[[Ideal Home]]''.

Brookes was an [[illustrator]] and staff [[cartoonist]] at the [[Evening Standard]] from 1977, signing his strips first "Rick Brookes" then "Brookes". He worked alongside [[Raymond Jackson ("JAK")|Jak]] for eighteen years, deputising for him In 1994 Brookes began contributing to the [[Daily Express]] taking over from Giles, using the signature "Brook", and he kept the same signature after he moved to ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'' in 1996, taking over from [[Tom Johnston (cartoonist)|Tom Johnston]].<ref>"Tributes", ''Evening Standard'', July 28, 1997, p.9.</ref>

Brookes's cartoons appear regularly in newspapers such as [[News of the World]], [[Mail on Sunday]], [[The American (weekly)|The American]] and [[Punch (magazine)|Punch]], and is especially popular on [[Metro (Associated Metro Limited)|Metro]], with his series ''THIS LIFE''.<ref>This series of strips was collected in 2003 in his book ''This Life'', published by [http://www.metro.co.uk/ Metro].</ref> He also worked on the [[Allied Lyons]] advertising campaign for [[Saatchi & Saatchi]]. Greatly influenced by [[Carl Giles|Giles]], [[David Low (cartoonist)|Low]] and [[Raymond Jackson ("JAK")|Jak]], Brookes also admires [[Pat Oliphant|Oliphant]], [[Matt Pritchett|Matt]] and [[Stanley McMurtry|Mac]]. He is reported as drawing his sketches with a Swan fountain pen and flexible nib, just so that he can be suppler in his drawing. He used to hide a rook in his drawings "because there is a [[rook (chess)|rook]] hidden in 'Brookes'".<ref>Mark Bryant ''Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists'' ([[Ashgate Publishing|Ashgate]], [[Aldershot]], 2000), p.39.</ref>

==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://opal.kent.ac.uk/cartoonx-cgi/artist.py?id=556 British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent]
*[http://gallery.hd.org/_c/memes/_more2005/_more11/cartoon-joke-based-on-TV-series-What-The-Victorians-Did-For-Us-by-Adam-Hart-Davis-in-London-Metro-20051020-by-Rick-Brookes-mono-1-DHD.gif.html Cartoon joke by Brookes, based on TV series ''What The Victorians Did For Us''] (2005)
*[http://www.hotel-blogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/08/08/dsc00597_3.jpg A cartoon by Brookes] (2007)
*[http://img.metro.co.uk/e-edition/Autos/Metro20081106/resources/39.htm A page from ''Metro'', with cartoons by Brookes] (2008)

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[[Category:People from Bangor, Gwynedd]]
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[[Category:British illustrators]]
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