Children’s author and illustrator, cartoonist, animator, artist and teacher, working mostly in pen and ink watercolour, creator of many books and of over 80 films for the BBC. He was born in Edinburgh, son of the diplomat Sir Andrew Ryan, and attended Ampleforth College and Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art, 1945–8. Was assistant art master at Harrow School, 1948–54. From 1966 was cartoonist for Catholic Herald, but was most famous for his creation Captain Pugwash, also Harris Tweed, Lettice Leefe and Sir Prancelot, his work appearing in the comics Eagle and Girl. Ryan was a member of Rye Art Society, in Sussex, where he lived, and the Society of Authors. He showed at RA, Round House, Royal Festival Hall and Rye Art Gallery. University of Kent’s cartoon archive and The Museum of the Moving Image hold Ryan’s work.