Mike Peyton drew his first cartoon in 1942. At tinternprisoner of war camp, and the cartoon appeared in a newspaper run by and for his fellow prisoners. Seventy years later, Mike has had to put the cpen permanently as failing eyesight has prevented him from drawing any more cartoons for the Yachting Monthly Confessional column for which he has become so well loved in recent years.Having provided illustrations for magazines as varied as the Church of England Times and Corsetry & Underweabest known for cartoons relating to his first love - yachting (and as he will happily poia boat before he had a car). To celebrate his career, Adlard Coles Nautical presents this hilarious retrospective of the very best of Mike's cartoons from the last eight decades, a collection that will bring a smile to the face of even the most rain-sodden sailor stuck in his marina berth for another week supposedly in summer.When yachting journaliwrote Mike's biography, he called Mike 'the world's greatest yachting cartoonist' and this book showise and well-executed, Mike's lively, perceptive and highly distinctive cartoons will speak to anyone who has ever taken to the water.
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