Steve Bright

Steve Bright's career had an unexpected beginning in 1977, aged 18, as a journalist with publishers D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. He turned up on his first day, only to find that he had been given a sub-editor's position in The Beano office.

After 18 months of writing scripts for the likes of Billy Whizz and Biffo the Bear, Steve became part of a two-man team charged with creating the Nutty comic. His first task was to develop and write scripts about an inept superhero called Bananaman, later to have his own series on the BBC. In later years, he also wrote and drew the character for The Dandy comic.

Steve left the company to take up a freelance cartooning career, but immediately returned in that capacity, with his first commissioned comic artwork - a cover for a Beano Comic Library, featuring Dennis the Menace's pet dog, Gnasher.

In the 25 years since that day, Steve has plied his trade for a wide variety of publications. He found work not only with his former employers at D.C. Thomson, but also with rival comic publishers IPC/Fleetway, and newspapers, writing and drawing the cover stories for The Funday Times, comic section of The Sunday Times.

Shortly after breaking into the grown-up world of editorial/political cartoons, Steve was offered a job with Scotland's biggest newspaper, the Daily Record, drawing topical cartoons five days a week. The following six years saw him cartooning on a variety of momentous events, covering the demise of the Conservative government and the rise of New Labour, and subsequent Scottish Devolution. He was twice short-listed for Cartoonist Of The Year in the Scottish Press Awards during that period.

Steve has since returned to drawing comic pages for The Dandy, Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Roald Dahl magazines. More recently, he has diversified into new fields of cartooning, including corporate logos and marketing illustration, as well as caricature in both the commissioned variety and the live performance markets. He is equally at home with the latest digital methods as he is with traditional pens, ink and paper.

At the start of 2012, Steve made a welcome return to editorial cartooning with The Sun newspaper, under the pen-name of Brighty, and currently draws for them two days a week. He has illustrated several books throughout his career and recently co-authored a collection of cartoons and gags, along with magician and comedian, John Holt.