Christopher "Kipper" Williams (born 30 December 1951) is a cartoonist who draws for newspapers, magazines, audio visual presentations and greetings cards. His clients include ''

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'', '' Country Life'', ''John Lewis Gazette'', ''

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'', ''Coaching at Work'', and ''

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''. He was born on the Wirral,

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, on 30 December 1951, the son of Aubrey Williams, a local government officer. His nickname "Kipper" came from a childhood pronunciation of "Christopher." He attended

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Grammar School, and from 1970 to 1974 studied fine art at

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, where, he remembered, "cartoons were my reaction against traditional fine art and painting." At Leeds he was a friend of Steve Bell.

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English magazine cartoonists British postcard artists English humorists People from the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral Alumni of the University of Leeds The Spectator people 1951 births Living people {{cartoonist-stub