Christian Huggett

Christian Huggett was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He lives currently in Nagoya, Japan.

Christian Huggett loved cartoons from an early age - but his mother disapproved of comic books and refused to let them into the house. So Christian snuck off to his friend’s basement where he would read comic books for hours.

When Christian was 16 a professional cartoonist came to stay with the Huggetts for a year. Christian sat next to him and watched him draw. Shortly thereafter Christian published his first cartoons in the high school newspaper.

Huggett’s career blossomed when he came to Japan.

He cartooned for various newspapers - “The Japan Times”, “Daily Yomiuri”, “Chunichi” and “Chubu Weekly”. He also drew for “Japanzine”, “Avenues” and “Kelly” magazines.

His one-panel cartoons highlighted the trials and tribulations foreigners face when living in Japan.

Recently Huggett became interested in acrylic painting. To further his drawing skills he studied part-time in London at “The Slade School of Fine Art” and “Central St. Martins School of Art and Design”. He also studied cartoon animation at “Vancouver Institute of Media Arts”, drawing at “Vancouver Film School” and classical drawing at the “Angel Art Academy” in Florence, Italy.

Huggett’s paintings are completely inspirational. Sometimes he sees the completed painting in a dream or he draws the original idea as a doodle.

“It always surprises me when people see meaning in my paintings,” Huggett said. “Someone looked at one of my paintings and said, ‘That’s exploitation of women!’ I thought that was really amusing because I had no idea what the painting was about myself.”

Huggett’s paintings, sometimes called “Schizo-Tribal Art”, have been described as “scary, strange and mysterious”.

Despite offers from buyers, Huggett has never sold any of his artwork. “My paintings are like my children, “Huggett said,” And I would worry about them too much if they were gone.”

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