Lindsay Foyle was born in 1944 and went to East Hills Boy’s High School and started work as a copy boy in The Daily Telegraph art department in 1960. A cadetship followed on Everybody’s before living in London for a year. He returned to Australia to work on The Bulletin. He has been a cartoonist for over 40 years and has been writing on the history of Australian cartooning the since 1986. He was Deputy Editor of The Bulletin in the late 1980s and Australian Business Monthly in the early 1990s. After that he worked at The Australian for 15 years.