David Alan Parkins was born on 2 November 1955 and is a British cartoonist and illustrator who has worked for DC Thomson, publisher of The Beano and The Dandy.
11 Facts About David Parkins
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David Parkins didn't take up art until sixth form, when he began drawing caricatures of his teachers.
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David Parkins studied Wildlife Illustration at Dyfed College of Art for a year, before switching to graphic design at Lincoln College of Art, specialising in illustration.
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David Parkins quickly made his mark on the strip and the character, and made several changes, the most notable of these being the introduction of Billy's new lightning bolt tracksuit in May 1992.
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In 1990, he started to draw "Fred's Bed" in The Beezer as understudy to Tom Paterson, although in practice David Parkins drew the vast majority of strips.
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David Parkins drew the strip until it was forced to end when the comic folded.
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David Parkins drew Dennis on a regular basis until 2003, but his workload meant that a number of stories were drawn by Nigel Parkinson and later Jimmy Hansen in this time.
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David Parkins was the artist of Desperate Dan for The Digital Dandy in 2013.
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David Parkins has illustrated two of Richard Platt's books in the Pirate Diary series.
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David Parkins has drawn cartoons for The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, the Times Higher Education Supplement, The Economist, the Literary Review of Canada, and Nature.
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David Parkins is the illustrator of That Cat Can't Stay and I Always, ALWAYS Get My Way, both written by Thad Krasnesky and published by Flashlight Press.