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{{Short description|Scottish comedian and comic strip creator}}
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'''Kev F. Sutherland''' (born 18 October 1961) is a Scottish comedian, [[caricaturist]], and [[comic strip]] creator. He has drawn for a variety of publications, including ''[[The Beano]]''. He has produced several shows at the [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe]], including [[The Sitcom Trials]] and [[The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre]].
==Early life==
He was born in [[Aberdeen]] and raised from age 6 in the village of [[Kibworth]] in Leicestershire. His paternal grandmother was the writer and photographer [[Jean Sutherland]]. In 1983 he graduated from [[Exeter College of Art and Design]].
== Early career==
Sutherland got his start in the world of British comics [[fandom]], contributing artwork and humour columns to fanzines like ''[[BEM (magazine)|BEM]]'' and ''[[Fantasy Advertiser]]'' in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
From 1993 to 1998, Sutherland shared a studio with Marvel & [[DC Comics]] artist [[Mark Buckingham (comic book artist)|Mark Buckingham]]
.<ref>{{cite web | title=Buckingham The Trend | work=Comics Bulletin | url=http://www.comicsbulletin.com/features/97565760028484.htm | access-date=18 September 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116210523/http://www.comicsbulletin.com/features/97565760028484.htm | archive-date=16 January 2014 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>
From 1999 to 2004, he was the producer of the UK's [[Comic Festival]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Chimpanzees on Speed, Kev Sutherland interview | work=Engine Comics | url=http://www.enginecomics.co.uk/redeye/redeye1/sutherland/sutherlandinterview.htm | date=September 2004 }}</ref> in [[Bristol]]. Beginning as Comics 99,<ref>{{cite news | title=Why Batman Is Really A Turkey | work=The Independent | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/why-batman-is-really-a-turkey-1072603.html | location=London | first=Clare | last=Garner | date=23 February 1999}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=UK Convention Saviour | work=Sequential Tart | url=http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/nov99/sutherland.shtml | date=May 1999 }}</ref> it included the [[National Comics Awards]]<ref>
{{cite web|title=National Comics Awards 2002 |work=2000AD |url=http://www.2000adonline.com/index.php3?zone=news&page=newsimage&choice=awards02 |year=2002 |access-date=28 October 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060216121640/http://www.2000adonline.com/index.php3?zone=news&page=newsimage&choice=awards02 |archive-date=16 February 2006 }}</ref> which he co-founded in 1997.<ref>{{cite web | title=Dennis the Menace zaps Dan Dare | work=Sunday Telegraph London | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-19138716.html|author=Chris Wilson| date= 16 March 1997}}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> For Comics 99, Sutherland produced The World's Biggest Comic<ref>{{cite web | title=Having a beano at the comics festival | work=Western Daily Press | url=http://utproductions.co.uk/wbc1.html | date=3 April 1999 }}</ref> which featured the work of 100 of the world's leading comic artists,<ref>{{cite web | title=The World's Biggest Comic | work=Blue Peter, BBC Television | url=http://utproductions.co.uk/wbc1.html | date=1 April 1999 }}</ref> auctioned to raise money for [[Comic Relief]].<ref>{{cite web | title=A giant comic strip | work=Bristol Evening Post | url=http://utproductions.co.uk/wbc4.html | date=10 March 1999 }}</ref>
==Comics career==
His comic strips appear in the UK comic ''[[The Beano]]'',<ref>{{cite web | title=Seventy Years of Comical Capers | work=Western Daily Press | url=http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Seventy-years-comical-capers/article-267181-detail/article.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120913145821/http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Seventy-years-comical-capers/article-267181-detail/article.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=13 September 2012 | access-date=13 August 2008 }}</ref> chiefly comedy adventures starring ''[[The Bash Street Kids]]'', with ''[[Dennis the Menace (UK)|Dennis The Menace]]'', ''[[Roger the Dodger]]'' and ''[[Minnie the Minx]]''. In 2011, Sutherland drew ''[[Match (magazine)|Match]]'' magazine's Galaxy Wanderers strip, and Find It in [[Doctor Who Adventures]].
His debut graphic novel ''Findlay Macbeth'' was published in 2020,<ref>{{cite web | title=Findlay Macbeth  | work=Amazon  | url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1714448967 | access-date=19 February 2020 }}</ref> followed by The Prince Of Denmark Street,<ref>{{cite web | title=Prince of Denmark Street Review | work=GoodReads | url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54596695-the-prince-of-denmark-street | access-date=29 June 2020 }}</ref> The Midsummer Night's Dream Team, Comic Tales From The Bible, and Richard The Third.
Sutherland's previous comic strip work includes ''Star Trek''<ref>{{cite web | title=Star Trek Comic | work=Star Trek Comics Guide | url=http://www.wixiban.com/comics/mv-unlimited.htm | date= November 1996}}</ref> [[Ghost Rider 2099]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Ghost Rider 2099 | work=Collectorz.com | url=http://www.collectorz.com/connect/comics/ghost-rider-2099/ | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730002511/http://www.collectorz.com/connect/comics/ghost-rider-2099/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=2012-07-30 | date=May 1996 }}</ref> and ''[[Doctor Strange]]''  for [[Marvel Comics]],<ref>{{cite web | title=Marvel Comics by Kev F Sutherland | work=Comic Vine | url=http://www.comicvine.com/kevin-sutherland/26-43189/ | date= May 2007}}</ref> ''[[UT (comic)|UT]]'' which he also edited,<ref>{{cite news | title=Is Viz Still The Biz? | work=BBC News | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/193958.stm  | date=15 October 1998}}</ref> ''[[Goosebumps]]'' for ''[[Funday Times|The Funday Times]]'', educational illustration for [[Scholastic Corporation|Scholastic]] and [[HarperCollins]], ''[[Zig and Zag (comics)|Zig and Zag]]'s Zogazine'', ''[[Red Dwarf]] Smegazine''<ref>{{cite web | title=Red Dwarf Smegazine | work=Atomic Avenue | url=http://www.atomicavenue.com/Atomic/titledetail.aspx?TitleID=28449 | date= 1 May 1993}}</ref> (both for [[Fleetway]]), and miscellaneous strips for ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', ''[[Oink! (comic)|Oink]]'',<ref name="Oink comic">{{cite web | title=Oink comic | work=Retro Dundee | url=http://retrodundee.blogspot.com/2010/02/oink-comic-issue-1.html | access-date=25 February 2010 }}</ref> ''[[Viz (comic)|Viz]]'', ''[[Gas (comic)|Gas]]'', ''[[2000 AD (comics)|2000AD]]'', ''[[Warrior (comics)|Warrior]]'', ''[[Gladiators (British TV show)|Gladiators]]'' (based on the [[LWT]] TV series), [[The Worm (comic)|The Worm]] The World's Longest Comic Strip<ref>{{cite web | title=The Worm – World's Longest Comic | work=Mars Import | url=http://www.marsimport.com/display_comic.php?ID=122 | date=January 1999 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224214234/http://www.marsimport.com/display_comic.php?ID=122 | archive-date=24 February 2012 | url-status=usurped }}</ref> and many more.
His self-published titles include ''[[The Hawk (comic)|The Hawk]]'' (1983), ''[[The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre]]'' comic (2008), ''Sinnerhound'' (2011), ''Hot Rod Cow'' (2011), and the local comic ''Captain Clevedon''<ref>{{cite web | title=Clevedon gets its own superhero | author=Samantha Pope | work=North Somerset Times  | url=http://www.northsomersettimes.co.uk/news/clevedon_gets_its_own_super_hero_1_1008934 | access-date=1 September 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Captain Clevedon: A local comic for local people | author=John Freeman | work=Down The Tubes  | url=http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.com/2011/08/captain-clevedon-local-comic-for-local.html | access-date=18 August 2011 }}</ref> (2011).
In 2007 he wrote ''[[Billy the Cat (British comics)|Billy the Cat]]'' vs ''[[General Jumbo]]'' in ''[[The Beano Annual]]''. In 2008 his Bash St Zombies original art was exhibited as part of the Comic Timing exhibition at [[Harrods]] in London.<ref>{{cite web | title=Comic Timing Exhibition at Harrods | work=London List | url=http://londonist.com/2008/10/review_comic_timing_at_harrods.php | access-date=17 October 2008 }}</ref>
Since 2003,<ref>{{cite web | title=No Laughing Matter | work=Times Educational Supplement | url=http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=387956 | author=Wanda Opalinska | access-date=5 December 2003 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610133325/http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=387956 | archive-date=10 June 2011 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Sutherland has presented his Comic Art Masterclasses<ref>{{cite web | title=Beano comic cartoonist wows crowd in Welwyn Garden City | author=Emma Hardwick | work=Welwyn and Hatfield Times  | url=http://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/beano_comic_cartoonist_wows_crowd_in_welwyn_garden_city_1_2227769 | access-date=8 June 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Superheroes turn up as Kev Sutherland visits Rivermead Primary | work=Get Wokingham | url=http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/news/s/2090738_superheroes_turn_up_as_kev_sutherland_visits_rivermead_primary | access-date=6 April 2011 }}</ref> in schools and colleges,<ref>{{cite web | title=Marlborough Pupils Win Silver | work=This Is Wiltshire | url=http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/8249128.Marlborough_pupils_win_silver_for_smart_work/ | access-date=5 July 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Caricatures, Comics and the Illustrator of the Beano! | work=Burgess Hill School For Girls | url=http://www.burgesshill-school.com/printer_1589.php | access-date=10 March 2011 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721102319/http://www.burgesshill-school.com/printer_1589.php | archive-date=21 July 2011 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> and festivals<ref>{{cite web | title=Comic Artist Is Quick on the Draw | work=Oxford Mail | url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yourtown/oxford/9003183.Comic_artist_is_quick_on_the_draw/ | access-date=3 May 2011 }}</ref> educating students from seven years old to adult<ref>{{cite web | title=CCA Comic Masterclass with Beano Cartoonist Kev F | work=Capital City Academy | url=http://www.capitalcityacademy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1652&Itemid=2382 | access-date=17 March 2011 }}</ref> in the art of the comic strip.<ref>{{cite web | title=Beano visit for pupils | work=Okehampton Times | url=http://www.okehampton-today.co.uk/news.cfm?id=34005&headline=Beano%20visit%20for%20pupils | access-date=29 September 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Pupils Enjoy Comic Masterclass | work=Malvern Gazette | url=http://www.malverngazette.co.uk/news/local/8214333.Pupils_enjoy_comic_masterclass/ | access-date=10 June 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Beano illustrator passes on tips | work=This Is Wiltshire | url=http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/5000252.Beano_illustrator_passes_on_tips_to_Hilperton_pupils/ | access-date=10 February 2010 }}</ref> He appears regularly in the media as an authority on comics.<ref>{{cite web | title=Dennis Without The Menace Bad Idea | work=Bristol Evening Post | url=http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Dennis-menace-bad-idea-says-Beano-illustrator/article-1255822-detail/article.html | access-date=14 August 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090819132138/http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Dennis-menace-bad-idea-says-Beano-illustrator/article-1255822-detail/article.html | archive-date=19 August 2009 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> He has spoken about the use of comic art in education at a number of Boys Writing Conferences,<ref>{{cite web | title=Comic Book Kids | work=Wakefield Express | url=http://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/lifestyle/comic_book_kids_1_2364384 | access-date=22 October 2010 }}</ref> in 2009 he helped devise a unit for a Creative & Media Diploma course,<ref>{{cite web | title=Comic Artist, Kev Sutherland, Visits The Earls High School | work=The Earls High School | url=http://www.earlshighschool.org/news/?n=27 | access-date=19 January 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503071518/http://www.earlshighschool.org/news/?n=27 | archive-date=3 May 2009 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> in 2011 he presented the first of the [[Stan Lee]] Excelsior Awards in Sheffield,<ref>{{cite web | title=Legendary comic creator helps reading scheme go global  | work=Sheffield Star | url=http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/legendary_comic_creator_helps_reading_scheme_go_global_1_3558069 | access-date=8 July 2011 }}</ref> and in 2012 he helped open the new gallery at the [[BRIT School]] in [[Croydon]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Comic creator's workshop marks Croydon gallery opening | work=Croydon Guardian  | url=http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/croydonnews/9722427.Comic_creator_s_workshop_marks_gallery_opening/ | access-date=25 May 2012 }}</ref>
== Performance career ==
From 1994 to 2004, Sutherland was a regular compere at Bristol's Comedy Box, where he developed the audience interactive game show ''Win Some Beer''.
He created ''[[The Sitcom Trials]]'' in 1999, on stage in London and Bristol, at the [[Edinburgh Fringe]] 2001, 2002 and 2004, and in Hollywood in 2005.<ref>{{cite web | title=Writers, are you game for a laugh? | work=BBC Gloucestershire |
url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/theatre/sitcom.shtml | access-date=5 April 2002 }}</ref> It continues on stage at the [[Leicester Square Theatre]] in London's West End.
Since 2005, Sutherland has written, produced and performed as ''[[The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre]]'',<ref>{{cite web | title=Comic socks it to Barton audience | work=Scunthorpe Telegraph | url=http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/entertainment/Comic-socks-Barton-audience/article-680671-detail/article.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505072104/http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/entertainment/Comic-socks-Barton-audience/article-680671-detail/article.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=5 May 2013 | access-date=9 February 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=4 star Edinburgh Review 09 | work=The Scotsman | url=http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewreview.aspx?id=372| access-date=13 August 2009 }}</ref> appearing at the [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe]] in 2007, 2008, 2009,<ref>{{cite web | title=Comedy Judges 'myopic' for Pleasance picks | work=The Scotsman | url=http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment/Comedy-judges-39myopic39-for-.5596777.jp | access-date=28 August 2009 }}</ref> 2010,<ref>{{cite web | title=Comic artist turns hand to pupperty in Caernarfon | work=North Wales Chronicle | url=http://www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/92766/comic-artist-turns-hand-to-pupperty-in-caernarfon.aspx | access-date=5 September 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127194830/http://northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/92766/comic-artist-turns-hand-to-pupperty-in-caernarfon.aspx | archive-date=27 November 2010 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> 2012,<ref>{{cite web | title=5 Star Edinburgh Review | author=Alison Pollard-Mansergh | work=Edinburgh Evening News  | url=http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/performing-arts/review-the-scottish-falsetto-sock-puppet-theatre-chunky-woollen-nits-gilded-balloon-teviot-1-2454475 | access-date=7 August 2012 }}</ref> 2103 - 16, 2018, 19, & 22 and in theatres internationally<ref>{{cite web | title=Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre coming to Ropery Hall | work=This Is Grimsby | url=http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/news/sock-evening/article-2796784-detail/article.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505080725/http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/news/sock-evening/article-2796784-detail/article.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=5 May 2013 | access-date=27 October 2010 }}</ref> and on television.<ref>{{cite web | title=Edinburgh Festival Interview | author=Lee Randall | work=The Scotsman  | url=http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1648 | access-date=14 August 2010 }}</ref> His TV work includes ''[[The Sitcom Trials]]''<ref>*{{cite web | title=More from Sitcom Trials | work=bbc.co.uk – Bristol | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2005/05/27/sitcom_trials_new_feature.shtml | access-date=5 May 2005 }}</ref> and ''[[A-Z of Rude Health]]'' for [[ITV Network|ITV]].
In 2009 he made an attempt at the [[Guinness World Record]]<ref>{{cite news | title=Guinness World Record Attempt | work=bbc.co.uk – Bristol | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/newsid_7896000/7896646.stm | access-date=18 February 2009 | date=18 February 2009}}</ref> for telling jokes in one hour, in support of [[Comic Relief]].
==Selected TV==
*[[Battle of the Books]] ([[BBC]])
*[[The One Show]] ([[BBC]])
*[[The Sitcom Trials]] ([[ITV Network|ITV]])
*[[A-Z of Rude Health]] ([[ITV Wales & West|HTV]])
*Comedy Shuffle ([[BBC]]) – as ''[[The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre]]''
*[[The Culture Show]] ([[BBC]]) – as ''[[The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre]]''
*Upstaged ([[BBC]]) – as ''[[The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre]]''
==Selected comics==
*''[[2000 AD (comics)|2000 AD]]'' – very early (still at school) work on Captain Klep, 1981
*''[[Oink! (comics)|Oink]]''<ref name="Oink comic"/> – first published work 1988
*''[[Gas (comics)|Gas]]'' (1989–1991) – Tales of Nambygate, Phallas The Soap Opera<ref>{{cite web | title=Tales of Nambygate | work=Indy Planet | url=http://www.indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=6129 | access-date=2 November 2011 | date=1 November 2011 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111025104643/http://indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=6129 | archive-date=25 October 2011 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>
*''[[Red Dwarf]]'' Smegazine (1992–1994)
*''[[UT (comics)|UT]]'' (mid-1990s)
* ''The World's Biggest Comic'' (1999) – charity production for Comic Relief & Comics 99<ref>{{cite web | title=Having a laugh is taken as read | work=Bristol Evening Post | url=http://utproductions.co.uk/wbc2.html | date=2 April 1999 }}</ref>
*''[[Goosebumps]]'' wrote strip adaptation in ''[[Funday Times]]''
*''[[Toxic (magazine)|Toxic]]'' – Hot Rod Cow (a character which has been referenced in Sutherland's Beano strips)
*''[[The Beano]]'' – Parents Evening in ''Beano Annual'' 2007; Pluggy Love & Billy The Cat vs General Jumbo in ''Beano Annual'' 2008; Roger The Dodger's Reservoir Dodge in ''Beano Annual'' 2009. Notable stories in the weekly ''Beano'' include Ickle Bitty Werewolf on Bash Street (3320–3322), School's Out (3316–3319), The Night Before Christmas (3310), Invasion of the Beano Snatchers (3421–3424), At Her Majesty's Pleasure (3335), The Ofsted Inspector (3366–3369), Scary Story (3353–3356) and The Bash Street Zombies (3410–3412)
*''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''
*''[[Viz (comics)|Viz]]'' – wrote & drew ''Tarquin Hoylet, He Has To Go to the Toilet''
*''[[Doctor Strange (comic book)|Doctor Strange]]'', ''[[Star Trek (comics)|Star Trek]]'', ''[[Werewolf by Night]]'', ''[[Ghost Rider 2099]]'' ([[Marvel Comics|Marvel]])
==References==
=== Notes ===
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=== Sources ===
* {{cite web | title=Prince of Denmark Street Review | work=GoodReads | url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54596695-the-prince-of-denmark-street | access-date=29 June 2020 }}
* {{cite web | title=Renowned comic-strip artist Kev F Sutherland draws up lessons at Blackburn school | author=Chris Adams | work=Lancashire Telegraph  | url=http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/blackburn/9631349.Renowned_comic_strip_artist_Kev_F_Sutherland_draws_up_lessons_at_Blackburn_school/ | access-date=4 April 2012 }}
* {{cite web | title=Comic book artist visits school | work=Weston Worle & Somerset Mercury | url=http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/education/comic_book_artist_visits_school_s_media_arts_week_1_1099228 | access-date=19 October 2011 }}
* {{cite web | title=Kev Sutherland visit | work=Waycroft Primary School | url=http://www.waycroft.bristol.sch.uk/homedir/KevSutherlandvisit.htm | access-date=20 October 2007 }}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* {{cite web | title=Comic Book Heroes | work=Sunday Post | url=http://utproductions.co.uk/schoolcutting2.html | access-date= 16 February 2008 }}
* {{cite web | title=Cartoon Fun in Library Sessions | work=Maidenhead Advertiser | url=http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/news/article-17114-cartoon-fun-in-library-sessions/ | access-date=30 July 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722114435/http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/news/article-17114-cartoon-fun-in-library-sessions/ | archive-date=22 July 2011 | df=dmy-all }}
* {{cite web | title=Comic Artist Inspires Budding Cartoonists | work=Princethorpe College | url=http://www.princethorpe.co.uk/main/Our_Schools/Little_Crackers_Nursery/News_and_Events?newsid=109 | access-date=4 December 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807042148/http://www.princethorpe.co.uk/main/Our_Schools/Little_Crackers_Nursery/News_and_Events?newsid=109 | archive-date=7 August 2011 | df=dmy-all }}
==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.comicfestival.co.uk}}
* [http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=KEVF 2000 AD profile]
* [http://hamlife.blogspot.com/search/label/socks Ham Life blog] – A Socks fan's reviews and photos
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