Steven Appleby

Steven Appleby is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Britain. He is a dual citizen of the UK and Canada. His humour is usually observational or absurd.

His work first appeared in the New Musical Express in 1984 with the Captain Star comic strip, which was made into an animated cartoon series in 1997. Captain Star also appeared in The Observer, Zeit Magazin, and various comics in the UK, Europe and America. Other comic strips appeared in many publications including The Times and the Sunday Telegraph. The strip Loomus can currently be seen in The Guardian. His work has also appeared on album covers, most notably on Trompe le Monde by the Pixies.

His series of cartoons Steven Appleby's Normal Life was successful enough not only to be translated into German and published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, but also to be made into a radio series for BBC Radio 4. An earlier series, Small Birds Singing, which ran for eight years in The Times, concerned itself with the usually surreal doings of the occupants of an English country house.

Appleby has also had many exhibitions of paintings, published over 20 books and collaborated on a musical play, Crocs In Frocks (with Teresa Early and Roger Gosling), which was staged in Camberwell and at the ICA, London in 2006.

His most recent book, The Coffee Table Book Of Doom (with co-author Art Lester), was published by Square Peg (an imprint of Random House) in November 2011.

Selected bibliography

• Normal Sex 1994 ISBN 0-7475-1898-X
• Men: The Truth 1995 ISBN 0-7475-2251-0
• Happy Families 1996 ISBN 0-7475-2604-4
• The Secret Thoughts of Babies 1996 ISBN 0-7475-5855-8
• The Secret Thoughts of Cats 1996 ISBN 0-7475-5850-7
• The Secret Thoughts of Dogs 1996 ISBN 0-7475-5870-1
• The Secret Thoughts of Men 1996 ISBN 0-7475-2969-8
• The Secret Thoughts of Women 1996 ISBN 0-7475-2968-X
• Antmen Carry away my Thoughts as soon as I think them 1996 ISBN 0-7475-3740-2
• The Secret Thoughts 1997 ISBN 0-7475-3491-8
• Alien Invasion:Steven Appleby's Guide to Having Children 1999 ISBN 0-7475-4455-7
• Encyclopedia of Personal Problems 2000 ISBN 0-7475-5067-0
• The Truth About Love 2000 ISBN 0-7475-4833-1
• Steven Appleby's Normal Life 2001 ISBN 0-7475-5614-8
• Mr Concerned's Book of Home Therapy 2002 ISBN 0-7475-6073-0
• A Book of Machinese Whispers 2006 ISBN 1-905847-01-7
• The Nine Lives of a Dysfunctional Cat 2003 ISBN 0-7475-6935-5
• ABC of Childhood 2005 ISBN 0-7475-7604-1
• The Little Book of Farts 2006 ISBN 0-7475-8245-9
• The Captain Star Omnibus 2008 ISBN 9780973950564
• The Coffee Table Book Of Doom 2011 ISBN 9780224086950

Personal life

He is an alumnus of Northumbria University.

External links

• Steven Appleby's website
• Captain Star comic strip collection