My colleague Sally Pryor has written a feature on my 10 years drawing cartoons for The Canberra Times. I selected some cartoons to illustrate it and wrote a few accompanying words.
Despite my tardiness updating this site, I am still drawing! I’m looking forward to seeing how many established caricatures we will get to retire at the upcoming Federal election.
(The Canberra Times, 18 December 2018 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Spare a thought for the editor of Australia’s annual political cartoon anthology who regularly finds Australian politics imploding right on deadline.
This is the 16th edition of Russ Radcliffe’s annual survey of Australian politics, as drawn by the nation’s cartoonists. Russ writes a handy introductory essay on the year that was, and includes a liberal helping of political quotes to accompany the collection of cartoons.
Available in all good bookshops etc, or via the publisher Scribe.
And one more, drawn after the anthology deadline, to complete a leadership triptych…
(The Canberra Times, 24, 25 August, 6 November, 2018 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Artists around the world are campaigning for cartoonist Ramón Esono Ebalé, imprisoned without charge in Equatorial Guinea since September 16.
Share your artwork in support of Ramón on social media using the hashtag #FreeNseRamon
You can check out Ramón’s excellent work here. Some of it features Equatorial Guinea’s President “Obi”, who seized power in a coup way back in 1979.
Imagine drawing the one Prime Minister, say Tony Abbott, for 38 years straight. Good grief.
My cartoon on the cover of the Turkish national daily Cumhuriyet, in the panel where their cartoonist Musa Kart’s cartoon should be.
Musa was arrested and jailed pending trial in early November, along with a number of his journalist colleagues, as part of President Erdoğan’s post-coup crackdown on critical voices in the media.
While he remains in jail, Cumhuriyet is filling Musa’s panel with cartoons of solidarity from around the world.
“At least 81 journalists are imprisoned in Turkey, all of them facing anti-state charges, in the wake of an unprecedented crackdown that has included the shuttering of more than 100 news outlets. The 259 journalists in jail worldwide is the highest number recorded since 1990.” A special report from the Committee to Protect Journalists by Elana Beiser.