Ffolkes, Michael

Michael Ffolkes (real name Brian Davis) (1925-1988) was a British illustrator and cartoonist most famous for his work on the Peter Simple column in The Daily Telegraph. He also worked for Punch and Playboy. He was a prolific illustrator of children's books, in particular those of Roald Dahl. His cartoons in Punch, in which he regularly illustrated film reviews, and in more than 50 books and The New Yorker, Playboy and The Reader's Digest, favored literary and historical allusions. He also wrote and illustrated books of his own.

He studied at Leigh Hall College in Essex and St. Martin's School of Art in London. He chose the pseudonym Ffolkes out of Burke's Peerage, telling colleagues with typical wryness that it connoted illegitimacy.