About Luke Warm

Mark Nesbitt was born in Dublin, Ireland and worked for 7 years as a civil engineer in the UK, Australia and Botswana traveling through much of Asia and southern Africa. In 1983 he co-wrote and illustrated a series of travel articles in India for The Sunday Tribune newspaper in Dublin and in 1985 won a cartoon competition in The Guardian. In the early 90's his strip "Fence Sittin' by Luke Warm" ran for two years in Mmegi newspaper in Botswana and won the 1990 Botswana Press Trust Cartoon Award. His monthly strip "The Kgotla by Ms Noma" was published by the regional Africa South magazine in Zimbabwe.

Since 1992 he's been based in London and has built up an impressive track record as a cartoonist with national papers in the UK and Ireland drawing under the name of Luke Warm through his website Autografix.com. His financial strip "Punters" has been syndicated by the Press Association in the UK and regular weekly work has included op/ed cartoons for the The Times Higher Education Supplement, strips in the Weekend Money supplement of The Financial Times and The Evening Standard and a weekly pocket cartoon on the technology pages of the Business 1 supplement of The Irish Times. Other regular clients include The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent on Sunday, The Independent, The Irish Times, The Sunday Business Post, The Evening Standard, New Statesman, Magill, Business & Finance, New Internationalist and a number of NGOs including Tourism Concern, RedR, VSO and Friends of the Earth.

This first children's book 'The toy that got away' was published by Macmillan in 2000 and to date sales exceed 15,000.