[2] His work was published in Private Eye for the first time while he was still attending university.
[1] In 2013, he won the Young Cartoonist of the Year Award,[3] given by the London Cartoon Museum.
[2] In 2021, McPhail's debut graphic novel, In, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
The fictional story focuses on a professional illustrator named Nick Moss.
[4] In 2022, the book won the Betty Trask Prize from the Society of Authors, making it the first graphic novel to win the award.