Born in Switzerland in 1952, Peter Schrank worked as a freelance cartoonist and illustrator in London for 20 years, before moving to Suffolk in 2002. He regularly publishes cartoons in The Economist, The Independent, Basler Zeitung and the Sunday Business Post. Honoured in the British Press Awards in 2000 and 2004, in the year 2000, he received the Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award, which is granted by the United Nations Correspondents Association.