Charlie Mackesy

Charlie Mackesy is a British artist, illustrator and author. He began his career as a cartoonist, including work for The Spectator, and later became a book illustrator for Oxford University Press. His first book, *The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse*, was published in 2019 and has been translated into numerous languages. Its short-film adaptation won the 2023 BAFTA Award for Best British Short Film, the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and five Annie Awards. Mackesy also collaborated with Richard Curtis for the charity Comic Relief and on the “Unity Series” with Nelson Mandela.