David Tazzyman author page

David Tazzyman biography

David Tazzyman is a British illustrator who works primarily on children’s picture books and fiction.

He was born and raised in Leicester and studied illustration at Manchester Metropolitan University, graduating in 1993.

After graduation, he travelled in Asia for three years while keeping sketchbooks, before relocating to London in 1997 to work in commercial illustration.

He entered children’s publishing in 2006 and is best known for illustrating Andy Stanton’s Mr Gum series, which earned the first Roald Dahl Funny Prize in 2008.

Tazzyman also illustrates other works such as The Orphans of St Halibut’s and The Pet: Cautionary Tales for Children and Grown-ups.

He lives in Leicestershire with his partner and three children.