LOCAL CARTOONIST
Gavin Thomson is the co creator of the the long running daily comic strip Treknet, which began life in the False Bay People’s Post in 2005 and is currently published daily in the Cape Times, Mercury and Saturday Star. He was also the Illustrator behind the cartoon classics Mama Taxi, Koos, Ripples and Brak.
From 2005 to 2017 he was the editorial cartoonist for the People’s Post and received a commendation for his work at the 2013 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards.
He has illustrated numerous children’s story books including the ‘And Friends’ series written by Roy Harding, Jesus stories for Little Zebra Books and The Bungle in the Jungle by John Bush.
Between his comic and book deadlines, he still manages to draw for pleasure. The results of those drawings are the famous Circle of Surfers and Epic wave featuring over 700 individual surfers on one (Epic) wave.