davidf was raised in England.
At school he excelled at drawing cartoons in
the margins of his maths book and falling asleep.
He studied production engineering for five years then jumped on a aircraft bound for New Zealand where hes lived ever since.
Hes been employed as an illustrator and
cartoonist
by New Zealands largest daily newspaper the
New Zealand Herald for three years, but for the last
twenty years hes been pretending to work from
home as a comic strip
artist. He draws a daily strip called The Politician and several weekly strips. His cartoons are syndicated to
Europe, Britain, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

davidf lives in Auckland with his wife and two children. People still keep asking him when is he going to get a proper job.