David Tazzyman

David Tazzyman is an award-wining illustrator from Leicestershire, England, UK, who wanted to be an artist since the age of five. David graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1993 and worked as a commercial illustrator before falling into children’s publishing in 2006, illustrating Andy Stanton’s Mr Gum series, which won the first Roald Dahl Funny Prize in 2008. David now mainly illustrates children’s picture and fiction books and lives in Leicestershire with his partner and 3 children. He likes football, cricket, golf and biscuits.