The Barrister Blog: Barrister Blog Skypecast interview no.1 with Queen's Counsel cartoonist Alex Williams

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Barrister Blog Skypecast interview no.1 with Queen's Counsel cartoonist Alex Williams

This video is the first in what will be a series of Skypecasts on this blog. It is an interview with top animator and cartoonist Alex Williams who draws the Queen's Counsel cartoons for The Times and in numerous books including Lawyers Uncovered. He also does the cartoons for BabyBarista and has had two more excellent books published recently: 101 Ways to Leave the Law and 101 Uses for a Useless Banker. This October will see the publication of The Queen's Counsel Alternative Lawyers' Handbook which you can pre-order at amazon.co.uk. Alex offers almost all of his cartoons for sale at £120 for originals and £40 for copies and they can be obtained from this email info@qccartoon.com.

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The Barrister Blog is written by Tim Kevan who is the author of The BabyBarista Files, a series of novels published by Bloomsbury. Law and Disorder was published in 2009 and Law and Peace in 2011. They are based on the BabyBarista Blog which he writes for The Guardian. He is also the co-author of Why Lawyers Should Surf. He practised as a barrister in London for ten years and now lives in Braunton in North Devon, enjoys surfing and is a co-founder of two businesses, one of which has since been sold to Thomson Reuters. See www.timkevan.com. You can buy his books on amazon . You can also listen to 'Law and Disorder' read by Tim Kevan at www.audible.co.uk. The BabyBarista cartoons are by Alex Williams who also does the Queen's Counsel cartoons for The Times.

Law and Disorder (originally called BabyBarista and the Art of War) is published by Bloomsbury and was described by broadcaster Jeremy Vine as "a wonderful, racing read - well-drawn, smartly plotted and laugh out loud" and by The Times as "a cross between The Talented Mr Ripley, Rumpole and Bridget Jones’s Diary". It is based is based on the BabyBarista Blog which previously appeared on The Times for three years and is now with The Guardian and which was described by The Lawyer as "genius". The sequel is Law and Peace (Bloomsbury, 2011). Both books can can be ordered on amazon. You can also listen to 'Law and Disorder' read by Tim Kevan at www.audible.co.uk.