David Ashford "Tony" Weare was born Wincanton 1912. studied at Bournemouth School of Art, but "chucked it to become a trooper in a cavalry regiment". He eventually bought himself out of the army and took a variety of jobs, including timber hauling, farming, and working in the tobacco industry, while keeping up the drawing.
He served as a radio operator during the Second World War, and after the war his illustration career began to take off, his illustrations appearing inmany magazines The Strand, Pearson's, Britannia, Nash's and also many comics
working well in to the 1980s he drew a few sequences of Alan Moore and David Lloyd's "V for Vendetta" in Warrior, at the invitation of Lloyd, an admirer of his work.
At the age of 82, in despair over his increasing immobility, he took his own life, jumping from the pier at Porthleven, Cornwall, on 2 December 1994. His suicide note was a cartoon of his feet sticking out of the water.