PEYTON

Mike Peyton is the world's most famous nautical cartoonist - the Mattor Giles of the sailing world. This is his authorised biography,complete with many of his iconic cartoons, written by Dick Durham - exFleet Street journalist, Yachting Monthly's Features Editor and Mike's lifelong friend.Dickromps through Mike's life, from his early schoolboy sketches to beingseconded by the intelligence corps during World War Two to draw maps ofthe North African deserts, from there running a PoW newspaper, and,back in the UK, going on to work as a freelance cartoonist on asdiverse titles as the Church of England Times and Corsetry &Underwear.Sympathetic, entertaining and insightful, this is thelong-deserved biography of a man who has dominated the nautical humourscene for well over seven decades.