For nearly 20 years, until 2021, my friend Pascal Wyse and I did a weekly cartoon in the Guardian, co-written by the two of us and then drawn up by me. This has been a mainstay of my cartooning ambition, allowing me the claim to being a regularly published cartoonist while I’ve tried to wriggle my solo work into magazines like The New Yorker and The Oldie.

For the first seven of those years, our weekly cartoon took the form of a four panel strip called The Pitchers, about two terrible Hollywood scriptwriters.

Inevitably its appeal was limited, and our take on the US movie scene was far from insider; in fact the core of it was really about the creative process, and writing partnerships. Despite its flaws, I’m hugely proud of it, and crafting some words each week gave me the confidence to start writing children’s books and graphic fiction in earnest.

In 2007 we were given a space on the food pages of the Guardian Weekend mag, and began another seven year stint producing a single panel cartoon about food each week.

This proved much more popular than our previous effort, and it was a real pleasure (as well as agonisingly difficult and fraught) to try and deliver a gag in a single panel, sometimes entirely free of words. The food cartoon sparked a Bloomsbury collection (sadly now out of print), three exhibitions and hundreds of sales of limited edition prints, which are still available today on the Berger & Wyse site.

In 2014, the then editor of Weekend offered us a slot at the front of the magazine, and the chance to make jokes about anything we wanted. Thus began our final seven years (there’s a pattern emerging here), refining our take on a mixture of middle class social mores, bad puns and the occasional spark of what could generously be called original insight.

Our space got progressively smaller, likewise our fee, and when the current iteration of the magazine launched, our number was up.

We can’t quite bring ourselves to stop though; apart from anything else, our weekly online meeting has become much more than just a habit - it’s an essential part of keeping the flame of creativity alive. We’re continuing to post weekly cartoons on our instagram, and mulling the possibilities of a return to print one day.

Meanwhile our back-catalogue of over 1000 cartoons and strips is available at www.bergerandwyse.com