Edward Rolland McLachlan (22 April 1940 – 29 September 2024) was an English cartoonist and illustrator, mostly producing sketches of a surreal and humorous nature as well as occasional political cartoons.
McLachlan was born in Humberstone, Leicestershire, and studied at Wyggeston Grammar School and Leicester College of Art.
He contributed regularly to the Sunday Mirror and the Evening Standard, and in the late 1960s worked as a lecturer in graphics at Leicester College of Art.
[1][2] From 1967 his cartoons appeared regularly in Private Eye, and his work also featured in the Daily Mirror, Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator, and many other journals.
He also designed advertisements, and wrote and illustrated children's books including Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings.