Brian Petrie

Brian Petrie was born in Fife in 1952. He studied graphic design and printing at Napier in Edinburgh. After that he started work with DC Thonson in Dundee as a magazine designer. Cartooning was always in his blood and in 1995 he left to pursue a freelance career as a cartoonist. Firstly with the weekly strip Chic n Sammy for the Sunday Mail. A daily strip then came along, namely The Sporran Legion for the Scottish Sun. He then went on to produce a daily topical cartoon for the next 20 years until he hung up his pen in 2017.

During his cartooning days he exhibited his paintings in galleries throughout Scotland, eventually merging his painting and cartooning styles to come up with the work he produces to this day. Folk musicians and harbours feature heavily in much of his work, mainly due to the fact he can smell the sea from his studio. Plus, he also plays a very average mandolin in a weekly folk session which has been going for around 30 years.
He gets his inspiration from the same space in his head that produced cartoons for most of his working life