Born in 1950, Mr Husband also made cartoons for Private Eye, The Times, Punch, Playboy, The Sunday Express, The Spectator and The Sun.
The artist had a heart attack on Westminster Bridge in London while travelling to a party – held by the satirical magazine – on Wednesday, according to his family.
Born in 1950, Mr Husband also produced cartoons for The Times, Punch, Playboy, The Sunday Express, The Spectator and The Sun – as well as working on the satirical ITV children’s series Round The Bend.Mr Husband’s son Paul wrote on X on Thursday “it is with a torn apart heart” that he announced the death of his father.
“Yesterday my Dad, Tony Husband, passed away as he was on his way to a Private Eye leaving party on a Thames barge. Something that meant a hell of a lot to him. “I don’t know what more I can say other than he was everything to me and everything want to be. This is the very last cartoon he made. Sent to his mate Nick Newman on the train down cause he thought he would be late.”Cartoonist Mr Newman, wrote on X: “Unbearably sad news that the great Tony Husband has died. Creator of Yobs and thousands of brilliant cartoons for @PrivateEyeNews and others, he will be hugely missed by friends and readers.
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