Colin Goh and Woo Yen Yen

I’ve been cartooning as far back as I can remember. When I was a kid, blank sheets of paper and fresh ‘jotter books’ (do they still sell them?) were more exciting to me than toy cars or robots. (I must have been a cheap kid to raise.) I would draw incessantly - between classes, during weekends or after school, basically any chance I got.

My very first published work was a drawing of the Greatest American Hero for the Radio & TV Times (the predecessor of ‘8Days’, which now carries my work every week). I began publishing comic strips professionally in 1988, when I was only 17, with the very first edition of the New Paper, after I’d won a Straits Times cartooning contest. I’ve been publishing my strips in the New Paper ever since: Orchard Road, Report Card, Yankee Doodles, The Concrete Jungle and most recently, Alien Talent, right through National Service, Law School, grad school, legal practice… In 1995, I was also voted ‘Favourite Cartoonist’ by New Paper readers. I’ve also done commissioned work for MINDEF, the Ministry of Health, the National Computer Board, and miscellaneous other organisations.

Anyway, I hope to set up a proper archive of my illustration work shortly, but for now, here’s a random sampling:

More of my cartoon work can be found at www.TalkingCock.com (currently being renovated - but it should be up again by 13 August 2007)!

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