Matthew Pritchett MBE (born 1964) has been the pocket cartoonist on the Daily Telegraph newspaper since 1988.

Pritchett studied graphics at St. Martins School of Art. Unable to get work as a film cameraman, he worked as a waiter in a pizza restaurant, drawing cartoons in his spare time. Matt had his first drawing published in the New Statesman and his work has also appeared in Punch and The Spectator.

The son of Telegraph columnist Oliver Pritchett. Matt and his wife have four children. He is four times winner of the Cartoon Art Trust annual prize. He was awarded an MBE in 2002 and in 2003 The Observer listed him as one of the 50 funniest people in the UK.

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