Patrick Blower was born in Brussels to an English architect father, Michael Blower and a Belgian mother, Bernadette (nee Muûls) who met whilst both were working at Brussels World's Fair in 1958.
He is the eldest of six children and was educated at Farnham Grammar School and University College London where he read English Literature.
He returned to Britain and began freelancing as an illustrator after joining the government's Enterprise Allowance Scheme.
[4] He was filmed by the BBC in 2019 as he drew and talked about the process of conceiving a cartoon to a tight deadline.
He co-produced the animation How Pandemics Spread for the launch of TED Ed and also created the drawings for an animation which was at the centre of an award-winning exhibition commemorating the centenary of The Spanish Flu for the Florence Nightingale Museum.