Peter Maddocks (born 1 April 1928; Birmingham, UK)
Peter Maddocks is a noted British cartoonist who has contributed to many of the UK's leading Daily and Sunday national papers with cartoon series such as ‘Four D. Jones' at the Daily Express in the late 50s and early 60s.

He has also created animated films for the BBC including The Family Ness, Penny Crayon and Jimbo and the Jet-Set.

Maddocks was born in Birmingham. In 1939 he won a scholarship to the Moseley School of Art in that city. He was taught by a man named Norman Pett at the Moseley School of Art. At the age of 15, Maddocks decided to leave school and join the Merchant Navy from 1943-1949.

After his 6 years in the Navy, he set up his own advertising agency where he designed cinema posters and wrote western series. He produced his first cartoons for the Daily Sketch from 1953-1954. From 1955-1965 he worked for the Daily Express where he created his infamous comic strip 'Four D. Jones'. In this comic, a cowboy traveled in the fourth dimension. This comic was a success for 10 years for the Sunday Express.

He later became the Cartoon Editor for Express Newspapers from 1965-1966 and from 1968-1971 was the Special Features Editor of King Magazine. Maddocks' characters tend to be goggle-eyed with splayed-out fingers.

Maddocks has made contributions to the following:
Daily Star
Daily Record
Manchester Evening News
Mail on Sunday
Private Eye
Daily Mirror
Daily Telegraph
Evening Standard
Evening News
Sunday Telegraph
Mayfair
Woman's Own