Nicholas Withycombe Garland OBE (born 1 September 1935)[1] is a British political cartoonist.
In 1958 he moved to the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square, London, where he worked for the next three years.
He directed the first two cabarets at Peter Cook's Establishment Club and spent a year at the BBC working in the Tonight department.
In 1966, he was appointed the first political cartoonist of The Daily Telegraph where he remained until 1986 when he was a founding journalist of The Independent.
He has exhibited woodcuts at the Fine Art Society in Bond Street, and his publications include: (illustrated) Horatius, by T. B. Macaulay (1977); An Indian Journal (1983); Twenty Years of Cartoons (1984); Travels With My Sketchbook (1987); Not Many Dead (1990); (illustrated )The Coma, by Alex Garland (2004); I Wish… (2007); Mommy, Daddy, Evan, Sage, by Eric McHenry (2011).
In 1964, Garland married Harriet Crittall: their daughter, Emily was born in 1966, and the marriage was dissolved in 1968.