Julian Hanshaw

Julian Hanshaw (born January 1971) is a British cartoonist best known for his graphic novels The Art Of Pho, I'm Never Coming Back, and Tim Ginger.

Hanshaw attended The National Film and Television School where he studied animation for three years.

His graduation animated film, The Church of High Weirdness, featuring the voice of Matt Lucas, won a Golden Reel Award — the Verna Fields Award for Best Sound Editing in a Student Film — in Los Angeles for its sound design.

After graduation, Hanshaw worked in the UK animation industry directing/designing/storyboarding on a number of projects for companies including Arte, Channel 4, Disney UK, and the BBC.

Hanshaw then worked as a senior animator on such BAFTA-winning children's series as Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!, The Secret Show, and Charlie and Lola.

Hanshaw won The Observer/Comica short story award in 2008, a national competition run in conjunction with the UK national Sunday newspaper The Observer and Comica.

The judging panel included head of Jonathan Cape, Dan Franklin; graphic novelist Rutu Modan; and journalist Rachel Cooke — they picked Hanshaw's piece "Sand Dunes and Sonic Booms" as the overall winner.

Since 2010 Hanshaw has worked closely with the UK-based Vietnamese restaurant chain Pho as an illustrator.

Hanshaw has designed posters/cards/wallpapers and bespoke in-house designs for the restaurants.

In 2014 Hanshaw took part in "When Will The Creeps Meet" at London's Orbital comic shop alongside artists such as Krent Able and Shaky Kane.

A book was published in conjunction with Your Days Are Numbered magazine.

Alongside Your Days Are Numbered magazine founder Steve Turner, Hanshaw organized a group exhibition that took place in Paris and also Europe's oldest comic shop, Lambiek, in Amsterdam in May/June 2015.