1. Luke Pearson - Luke Pearson is a British comic artist working for NoBrow, he currently lives in Nottingham (where I'm from!). While Pearson is probably best known for his fantasy series, Hilda and the Midnight Giant etc., it's his autobiographical and personal work where you really see his "British-ness" shining through, covering topics ranging from the anxieties about very trivial things, to the way in which we often look down on the lives of other people when given very little information about them.
Image from Some People by Luke Pearson, 2010, self-published
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2. Tom Gauld - Tom Gauld is primarily a comic artist, but I first came across his work in a copy of Ted Hughes' The Iron Man, and maybe that's why I relate him to Britishness, because of that association to a piece of work by such a great British storyteller. In his comics, Gauld's work is often humorous, this humour usually coming from the mundane in a setting where it isn't expected, for example, in one comic (from Gauld and Dimon Lia's comic, Both) a knight sets out on an epic quest that takes days, only to return to the castle and be scolded for forgetting to pick up a pint of milk on the way.
Image Source:
http://www.cabanonpress.com/Gallery/gallery27-IMCover.htm
2. Judith Kerr - I had already read The Iron Man before I was given the Tom Gauld copy as a present, but unlike Gauld, Judith Kerr was introduced to me very early on. This is probably the most "British" illustrator on the list, having influenced so many children growing up in this country. Growing up, we had two very forgetful cats who were constantly getting themselves locked out and doing daft things, so the stories were easy for me to relate to, that and the Thomas family are such a good portrayal of the average suburban British family that there's something there for everyone to relate to.
Image Source:
http://fallenstarstories.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/judith-kerr-turns-90.html
