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Gary Northfield is a British comic artist and writer, most famous for his comic character, ''Derek the Sheep'' published in DC Thomson's The Beano and BeanoMAX〔(Scotsman Beano at 70 article )〕 Gary graduated from Harrow College University of Westminster with a degree in Illustration in 1992.〔(Agent profile )〕 He joined the British small press comics〔Wikipedia British Small Press 2000s〕 community in 1999, creating various titles such as "Great!", "Little Box of Comics" and "Stupidmonsters".〔(mondoagogo interview )〕 In 2002, he acquired the position of in-house illustrator at Eaglemoss Publications, where he worked for five years on projects such as Horrible Histories Magazine, Horrible Science Magazine and The Magical World Of Roald Dahl.〔(Agent profile )〕 Derek the Sheep began appearing in The Beano from February 2004 and is unique in that it is The Beano's first and only creator-owned character.〔(Paul Gravett Beano 70th Anniversary article )〕〔(Downthetubes book review )〕〔(mondoagogo interview )〕 Derek the Sheep has a collection of early stories published by Bloomsbury Publishing in September 2008 and in France by Actes Sud/Editions De L'an2,〔(Lew Stringer book review )〕 reprinting the first thirteen strips in The Beano. In 2008 he illustrated the comic strip Pinky's Crackpot Circus for The Dandy, wrote and drew "World's Greatest Heroes" for National Geographic Kids and in 2009, created Little Cutie for The DFC. In 2012 his strip Gary's Garden began appearing regularly in the weekly comic, The Phoenix, with the first year's worth of strips collected in the book The Phoenix Presents - Gary's Garden: Book 1. In 2013, Walker Books published The Terrible Tales Of The Teenytinysaurs, a brand new collection of never-before published strips.〔(Forbidden Planet Blog May 29 2013 )〕 Gary's first children's novel, Julius Zebra, will be published by Walker books in March 2015, with book 2 to follow soon after, along with Teenytinysaurs Book 2. 〔(Forbidden Planet Blog June 30 2013 )〕 He has also illustrated the children's books, "Henry VIII Has To Choose" and "Sleeping Beauty: 100 Years Later" for Franklin Watts.〔(Franklin Watts catalogue )〕 ==Books== *''Derek the Sheep'' (2008) — Bloomsbury Publishing *''Henry VIII Has To Choose'' With Julia Jarman (2009) — Franklin Watts *''Sleeping Beauty: 100 Years Later'' With Laura North (2010) — Franklin Watts *''(The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs )'' (2013) — Walker Books *''(The Phoenix Presents - Gary's Garden: Book 1 )'' (2014) - David Fickling Books *''(Julius Zebra - Rumble With The Romans )'' (2015) — Walker Books *''(Julius Zebra - Book 2 )'' (TBC) — Walker Books *''(Teenytinysaurs Book 2 )'' (TBC) — Walker Books 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gary Northfield」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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