017_Frank Dickens
Eight-time winner
Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain Strip Cartoonist of the Year
Frank Dickens
Eight-time winner
Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain Strip Cartoonist of the Year
Frank William Huline Dickens (born 2 February 1932) was born in Hornsey, London.
Dickens left school at sixteen and began working for his father, a painter-decorator. A self-taught artist, he began working as a cartoonist in 1959 and has since won eight 'Cartoonist of the Year' awards for his Bristow series. In 1971 he made an introduction into stage work and in 1999 adapted Bristow into a six-part series for BBC Radio 4. Dickens has also published twelve children's books and two thrillers.
Children's Fiction
Fiction
Strip Cartoons
Broadcast
THE SIGNIFICANT OTHER
SPORTING SECRETS
MOTOR MOUTH
THE LYTTONS
ALBERT HERBERT HAWKINS - The Naughtiest Boy In the World
A CALMER SUTRA
A nod and a wink tribute to the "Kama Sutra", the celebrated Indian guide to the labyrinth of sexual etiquette, dedicated to those in the afternoon of thir lives.
He went back into the room but was stopped in his tracks by the television where the unmistakeable face ofJosef Penkovsky could be seen. It was a protracted news flash and went on for several minutes. Although the commentary was in Portuguese it was clear that the Russianbillionaire had been assassinated that evening by a policeman who escaped from custodyand committed suicide after the killing. They showed a picture of Cielo, mentioned that she had died in her sleep that morning and tried unsuccessfully to link the stories. Waggoner sat down and sipped from his drink. He was genuinely saddened to hear of Penkovsky’s death. He was suddenly aware that as far as he knew he and Zia were the only two people alive that knew of the elixir.
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Maverick British agent Simon Waggoner is ‘sprung’ from a Russian labour camp by feared Police Chief Major Igor Mikulitsin to investigate why a thousand of the world’s richest people are invited to take a secret sea trip.
The trip is the brain child of Russian oligarch Josef Penkovsky who runs his business empire from Brazil.
Waggoner quickly discovers he is out of touch with today’sintelligence links andafter a struggle to getback into the game that refuses to welcome him, starts an investigation that includes meetings with other agents and takes in murders in St. Petersburg, bombings in Salvador de Bahia, romance in Disneyland and culminates in violent action in the shadow of the giant statue of Christ on the mountain of Corcavado above Rio de Janeiro.