Name: David Homfray
Location: Wolverhampton, West Midlands, UK
Email: davidhomfray@myway.com
My first paid job was writing for the (now long defunct) humour magazine 'Sweet FA', and that was followed by writing a few sketches for Radio 4's 'The Way It Is' programme.
I then started to get interested in all this new 'Internet' business, and shortly afterwards got my first animation commission - to produce ten animations for the 'FootballNews' website, based around the Euro 2000 championships.
Bits of writing and animation aside, my next major commission was provided by the lovely people at Hahabonk for whom I produced a series of six cartoons that were sold onto the Paramount Comedy TV channel, and a further pilot episode sold to the UKPlay TV channel.
After a period of juggling part-ownership of three websites, I then produced a series of cartoons/cartoon strips for Ribsplitters, wrote for the Spinon political website and managed to squeeze a cartoon website into WAP-enabled phones.
December 2001, and the following next fifteen months saw the development of a humour title called 'Vendre' magazine. Despite it's online incarnation being judged as one of the best three entrants for a competition run by Channel Four, and also receiving several thousand pounds of funding from The Princes Trust, not enough capital could be raised to turn the title into a financially-viable project. Judging from other peoples attempts to set up humour magazines, it seems that I was not alone in failing to crack that particular problem.
My latest project is a return to animation, the results of which can be seen on the front page.