Tom Chitty makes cartoons and illustrations and writes funny words.
About Tom
Based in Toronto, Tom Chitty grew up in the UK, worked for a year in Australia, and moved to Canada in 2008.
Tom has twice been nominated by the National Cartoonists Society for best newspaper / magazine illustration; in 2021 and 2023.
He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, with over eighty cartoons published in the magazine. His cartoons and illustrations have also found homes elsewhere:
Wired, Esquire, Airmail Weekly, American Bystander, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Weekly Humorist, Current Affairs, The Hollywood Reporter, Harvard Magazine, Quill & Quire, Maisonneuve, Topic Stories and the Literary Review of Canada.
For books featuring Tom’s cartoons, see ‘highlights’ section (right/below).
Tom has worked in digital media, design, and video production (storyboarding and animation), for a variety of clients such as Google, You Tube, The NHL, Toronto Blue Jays, MTV, Condé Nast.
Tom partnered with ATP productions to provide animations and cartoons for Google, including all drawings for their worldwide Good To Know campaign about online safety.
His short animation about Google's Privacy Policy was shortlisted for an A.O.I. design award.
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Highlights
Books featuring Tom’s cartoons
Send Help! A Collection of Marooned Cartoons (2021)
Humanocracy, Hamel and Zanini (2020)
The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons (2018)
The New Yorker Cartoons of the Year (2016)
The New Yorker Cartoons of the Year (2015)
Press / profiles
Tom Chitty interview on New Yorker Caption Contest Podcast, Apple / Google
Cover artist Q&A: Tom Chitty at The Literary Review
Implied Noses and Sketch-Burps at Inkspill
Tom Chitty at A Case for Pencils
Weird & Whimsical at Threadless
House portraits featured in Toronto Life and Air Canada's in flight magazine
Awards
N.C.S. Rueben award for illustration—shortlisted
(in 2021 and 2023)
Artscape Toronto, Award of Distinction
A.O.I. design award—shortlisted
A.O.P first class design award
Education
M.A. Animation with Distinction
B.A. (Hons) Politics and Communication Studies