This month’s cartoonist is Huw Aaron

Huw’s cartoon (above) appears on page 12 of our October issue. A selection of his cartoons for Prospect will be published on First Drafts over the next month. Huw’s book, “Aannual Aaron 2009″ is published later this month and will be available from www.huwaaron.com

First, give me your autobiography in 100 words or so
A hundred words? Tough. And there’s nine gone already. Well, it’s something like:

Born.
Learnt to hold a pencil.
Spent every waking moment drawing, scribbling, doodling – showing limitless creative potential.
Education system did its bit.
Became a chartered accountant.
Epiphany: “Wait a sec. I hate this.”
Quit.
Cartooning happily ever since.

I know it’s a terrible question to ask a creative person, but where do you get your ideas from?
Cartoons are almost invariably little slices of incongruity. Something appears where it shouldn’t, roles have been reversed, an inappopriate