Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant is an author and syndicated cartoonist born in London, UK, and living in Santa Barbara, California, USA. He is best known for his Pot-Shots, single-panel illustrations with one-line humorous remarks, which began syndication in the United States of America in 1975. Brilliant achieved American citizenship in 1969. Brilliant graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in history in 1964 and taught on a "Floating University" an educational cruise ship that traveled around the world in the mid-60s. He later taught at a community college in... Bend, Oregon. During the "Summer of Love" in San Francisco in 1967, Brilliant gave daily lectures near the Haight St. entrance of Golden Gate Park. Brilliant released a live album recorded in Golden Gate Park in 1967 on a small Hollywood, CA record label, Dorash Enterprises . The album is quite rare today.
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| Birthdate: | December 9, 1933 |
| Birthplace: | London |
| Age: | 78 |