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New Zealand cartoonist
John Kent
(21 June 1937 ? 14 April 2003) was a
New Zealand
cartoonist
who is best known as the author of the erotic and satirical
Varoomshka
comic strip
in the
English
newspaper
The Guardian
during the 1970s.
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Born in
Oamaru
, Kent was self-taught as an artist, influenced by
Al Capp
, creator of
Li'l Abner
. He worked principally in
felt-tip pen
on
A4
paper. Kent emigrated to England in 1959, working in
advertising
before his
Grocer Heath
strip was published in
Private Eye
in 1969.
Varoomshka
appeared in
The Guardian
from 1969 to 1979, Kent also contributing work to
The Sun
,
The Daily Mail
,
The Sunday Times
and, from 1998,
The Times
, where his
La Bimba
strip showed clear echoes of the earlier
Varoomshka
.
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