Lance Bell is a London-based, wickedly-talented graphic illustrator & visual recorder, who swears by (non-photo) blue pencils and Macintosh computers. The son of a Royal Air Force officer, he saw most of the world before the age of 15 – his nose stuffed in Astérix le Gaulois and Johnny’s Hart’s B.C. Comics, whose composite styles would ultimately influence his own.  

Cartoons and comic strips are Lance’s bread and butter. Despite his precocious world travels, he believes “he got more inspiration and direction from the things he read.”  After endless hours reproducing his favorite comics out of books, contributing his own “gag cartoons” to magazines during college, and creating graphics for computer games on home computers (we’re talking pre-Macintosh, folks, circa-Commodore ’64), Lance eventually landed a position at Reuters (now Thomson Reuters), where he helped develop their News Graphics Service, which would be a wholly digital platform – a pioneering operation of its time. 

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