Marf cartoon

Marf is the pen-name of Martha Richler, the Evening Standard cartoonist.

She has been drawing a daily topical cartoon for the Standard since March
2002. She moved to the Londoner's Diary page in August 2003.

Born and brought up in London, the youngest daughter of the novelist and
satirist Mordecai Richler, she has been cartooning for seven years. She has
published a strip cartoon called Lucky and spent the year 2000 in Toronto,
drawing the daily pocket cartoon for Canada's national newspaper, the Globe
and Mail.

Before becoming a cartoonist, she studied art history at Harvard University.
She is the author of 'A World of Art', the best-selling history of art based
on the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

Marf's cartoon images are also well-known to young fashionistas: she has
designed T-shirts, bags and scarves for Topshop and, in August 2004, she is
launching her own label at Topshop.