Background
The son of an Royal Air Force officer, Newman was born in Kuala Lumpur and schooled at Ardingly College where his satirical career began, working on revues with Ian Hislop.
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University of Oxford. Oriel College.
Career
Despite this incident Newman managed to secure a place at Oriel College, Oxford where he read history and continued collaborating with Hislop, who was studying English at Oxford. Hislop and Newman subsequently wrote for Maureen Lipman and co-wrote several episodes of Murder Most Horrid for Dawn French. Newman and Hislop"s credits also include two series of My Dad"s the Prime Minister for British Broadcasting Corporation 1, sketches for The Harry Enfield Show, creating the character Tim Nice-But-Dim, and the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 series Gush, a satire based on the first Gulf War, in the style of Jeffrey Archer.
Also with Chris Douglas, he wrote 2 series of Mastering the Universe for Dawn French on Radio 4.
In 2008 he co-wrote A Bunch of Amateurs – starring Burt Reynolds, Sir Derek Jacobi and Samantha Bond – which was the Royal Film Performance for that year. Newman’s career as a cartoonist began in 1976, when he sold his first drawings to Yachting Monthly – and by 1981 he was working regularly for Private Eye.
Since 1989, he has been pocket cartoonist for The Sunday Times. His cartoons and strips have appeared in many other publications including Punch and The Spectator.
He also draws for Times Higher Education (THE), Estates Gazette, The Wisden Cricketer, the Wisden Almanack and The Big Issue.
The Cartoon Art Trust voted him Pocket Cartoonist of the Year 1997 and Gag Cartoonist of the Year 1998 and 2005. He has produced many cartoon anthologies and books, including three Wallace & Gromit adventures (with Tristan Davies Public Hodder & Stoughton).
