John Minnion

Who is John Minnion?

John Minnion is an English illustrator.

His distinctive black and white drawings have appeared in publications such as the Financial Times, The Guardian, and The Times, where for six years he illustrated the television criticism column written by Lynne Truss, author of the surprise best-seller about punctuation, Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Minnion drew politicians for the New Statesman and composers for The Listener. His skilful caricatures are drawn always from photographs, never from life.

Amongst Minnions' earliest issued works, which he published himself, are illustrated versions of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark. He also issued a small folio of illustrations to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

Most recently, Minnion has published several books which bring together drawn and written portraits, under the label of his own publishing company, Checkmate Books. The first of these books was Glued to the Gogglebox, which brought together various British television personalities. His second publication centred on 20th-century composers, and was named Uneasy Listening.