Savage Pencil is the nom de plume of English music journalist and comics artist Edwin Pouncey, who was born in Leeds in 1951.

Edwin Pouncey has contributed to magazines such as Sounds, Forced Exposure and The Wire. He has illustrated record sleeves for bands such as The Fall, Big Black, Sonic Youth and Rocket From The Crypt amongst others. He was also the lead singer of The Art Attacks, a band he formed while studying at the Royal College of Art in 1977 with Steve Spear, another RCA student, and Marion Fudger, a member of the Spare Rib magazine collective.