Wes Mountain is a London-based freelance illustrator and cartoonist who was previously Multimedia Editor for The Conversation, where he put together all kinds of fun interactive and animated things in between drawing cartoons and comics. He is currently the Digital Art Editor for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
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