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Regional secretary with the National Education Union
Meet the cartoonist
The Morning Star's pages are enlivened by some of the country's best political cartoonists. One of them is Bristolian STELLA PERRETT

What prompted you to draw cartoons?

To try and pacify the bullies at school, plus a steady diet of British and American comics as a child.

Have you any formal artistic training?

Only up to O-level Art.

What's the most difficult thing about producing a cartoon?

The hardest part is often getting the spatial balance right on paper and the precise wording. Japanese artists say it’s what you leave out that is most important and they are right.

How do you pick the subject?

Is it difficult for you to “get” the likeness right in a caricature?

What annoys you most in public figures and do you see the ridiculing of them as your duty?

How important are cartoons as comic relief?

How do you hope readers will react to your satire?

Cartoonists are said to be gloomy. Are you?

Do women cartoonists get a fair crack of the whip  in the profession?

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