About the artists

Jock Alexander studied at the National Art School from 1974 to 1977. He produced illustrations for Fairfax Newspapers for nine years before joining News Limited in 1996. His work currently appears in the Australian and Daily Telegraph.

Dean Alston joined the West Australian in 1986. He has been drawing editorial cartoons there since 1987. Before working as a cartoonist, Alston was a cartographer and publican.

Michael Atchison has been cartooning for over 40 years. His work currently appears in the Adelaide Advertiser.

Greg Bakes has been working as an illustrator for over 20 years. He is currently working at the Sydney Morning Herald.

Paul Batey is a freelance cartoonist and a blogger at Daily Flute.

Jonathan Bentley was born in Victoria in 1965. He graduated from Bright Polytechnic in 1989 and began work as a freelance illustrator, publishing in the Independent, the Observer and the New Scientist. He joined the Courier-Mail in 1997.

Warren Brown is the editorial cartoonist for the Daily Telegraph. He has previously won a Stanley award for the best editorial cartoonist.

Pat Campbell is a freelance cartoonist whose work regularly appears in the Canberra Times and Choice magazine. He won the humorous illustrator award at the 2002 Stanleys.

Rod Clement is a pocket cartoonist for the Australian Financial Review. Clement also writes and illustrates children’s books. In 1998 he won the Walkley award for best cartoon.

Matthew Davidson has been an artist/illustrator for 15 years. His work has been commended at the Walkleys and the Melbourne Press Club. His work appears in the Age.

John Ditchburn is the regular cartoonist for the Ballarat Courier. Ditchburn has been published in Eureka Street, Independent Monthly, Border Morning Mail and the Australasian Post.

Rod Emmerson is the editorial cartoonist for the New Zealand Herald.

John Farmer has worked as the political cartoonist at the Hobart Mercury and Sunday Tasmanian for 10 years. Farmer has won prizes in the United Nations Ranan Lurie and Coffs Harbour cartoon competitions.

Rocco Fazzari is a graduate of the South Australian School of Art and has worked as for the Sydney Morning Herald since 1988. He previously worked for the Canberra Times from 1985 to 1986 and his illustrations have also appeared in the Sunday Age and the Sun-Herald.

Michael Fitzjames is an illustrator for the Sydney Morning Herald. He has previously been published in the Guardian, Nation Review, Living Daylights, Digger, the Age Monthly Review, National Times, Harper’s Bazaar and MJ Magazine. He exhibits his work at the Australian Galleries in Sydney and Melbourne.

Lindsay Foyle has contributed to a number of publications, including the Australian, the Bulletin, Australian Business and the Daily Telegraph. Lindsay won the award for the best political cartoon in the Coffs Harbour cartoon competition in 1999, first prize for best comic in 2000 and a merit award in the Olympics cartoon section in 1999. He has also written about the history of cartooning.

Matt Golding is a freelance cartoonist working from Melbourne. He draws political and gag cartoons on a weekly basis for the Melbourne Times and the Melbourne Weekly Magazine.

Tom Jellett joined News Ltd in 1998 and also freelances as an illustrator for Penguin Books. He was a Walkley finalist in 2000.

Fiona Katauskas has been a freelance cartoonist for five years. Her work has been published in the Bulletin, Sydney Morning Herald, Australian, Australian Financial Review, Chaser News and a range of other publications.

Chris Kelly is a political cartoonist who regularly contributes to Green Left Weekly.

Mark Knight is the editorial cartoonist for the Herald Sun and Sunday Herald Sun. He has previously worked for the Australian Financial Review and the Melbourne Herald.

Sturt Krygsman is an illustrator for the Australian. He has won seven Stanley awards, a Walkley award and a National Cartooning award.

Jon Kudelka is a freelance cartoonist based in Hobart. His work appears in the Australian and the Hobart Mercury. In 2008, Kudelka won a Walkley award for best cartoon and a Stanley award for best political cartoonist.

Sean Leahy began working as the editorial cartoonist for the West Australian in 1975, and is now the editorial cartoonist for the Courier-Mail in Brisbane and the Sunday Times in Perth. His work has also appeared in Time Magazine (Australia), the Australian and the Bulletin.

Bill Leak is a caricaturist, cartoonist and illustrator for the Australian. He has numerous cartooning prizes including eight Cartoonist of the Year awards.

Eric Löbbecke has been an illustrator for News Limited since 1988, working on the Australian, Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Telegraph. He was a Bald Archies winner in 1999 and 2001, Black and White Artist of the Year in 1993, and won a Walkley award for illustration in the same year.

Reg Lynch was born in 1960 and has been a cartoonist, illustrator, designer, lecturer and curator since 1982. His work has been published in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Independent Monthly, the Bulletin and the Age. A collection of his work, Bulk Reg, was published in November 2000.

Alan Moir is the editorial cartoonist for the Sydney Morning Herald. Originally from New Zealand, Moir has also worked for the Bulletin and Courier Mail. He has been six times winner of ‘Cartoonist of the Year’, and received a Walkley award in 2000. He was a Churchill Fellow in 2000, studying the influence of Australian and New Zealand artists on British cartooning.

Paul Newman came to Australia from Dublin in 1988 and works as a newspaper artist for News Limited.

Peter Nicholson is the editorial cartoonist for the Australian. He was also the creator of the popular Rubbery Figures television series.

Vince O’Farrell has been an editorial cartoonist for the Illawarra Mercury since 1986. He is a six-times winner of the Rotary cartoons award.

Ward O’Neill has been working as an illustrator and cartoonist since 1972 and has worked for the Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, National Times and the Bulletin. He is the editorial cartoonist for the Australian Financial Review and often illustrates Alan Ramsay’s column in the Sydney Morning Herald on Saturdays.

Bruce Petty is one of Australia’s most celebrated cartoonists, and also works in animation, sculpture and etchings. He has worked for a number of Australian newspapers including the Daily Mirror, Australian, Time Magazine (Australia) and currently works for the Age.

David Pope is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator for the labour movement and alternative press. His work regularly appears the Sun-Herald. Pope has been awarded five Stanley awards for his editorial cartoons and humorous illustrations.

Geoff Pryor has been the editorial cartoonist for the Canberra Times for over 20 years.

Tohby Riddle is an author and illustrator of picture books as well as a cartoonist. His work has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald and Good Weekend. His first collection of cartoons, What’s the Big Idea?, was released in 2003.

David Rowe is a daily editorial cartoonist for the Australian Financial Review. In addition to illustrating, Rowe also occasionally creates satirical sculptures. Rowe has won numerous awards for his political cartooning.

John Shakespeare is an illustrator and cartoonist for the Sydney Morning Herald. He has previously worked for the Courier-Mail and the Sun. In 1995, Shakespeare was awarded a Walkley award for best illustration.

Ian Sharpe migrated to Australia from the United Kingdom in 1950. He currently works as an illustrator for the Canberra Times.

Phil Somerville is a freelance cartoonist. His cartoons have appeared in the Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Bulletin, Nexus, Punch and the Sun-Herald colour magazine.

John Spooner is an illustrator for the Age. As well as being widely published, John has won five Stanley awards, three Walkley awards, the Fremantle Print Prize (shared) in 1986 and the Graeme Perkin award in 2002.

Ron Tandberg was first published in the Age in 1972. He is famous for his pocket cartoons. He is the winner of eight Walkley awards for best cartoon and two gold Walkley awards.

John Tiedemann is an illustrator and cartoonist currently working for News Limited. He has previously worked for Fairfax and the Canberra Times and is featured regularly in the Bulletin and Money Magazine. In 2000, John won a Stanley award for general illustrator.

Andrew Weldon is a freelance cartoonist whose work appears regularly in the Sunday Age, the Big Issue and The Chaser books. His work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the Spectator and Private Eye. Weldon has published two collections of his cartoons, the most recent being If You Weren’t a Hedgehog ... If I Weren’t a Haemophiliac ...

Cathy Wilcox started as a cartoonist for the Sydney Morning Herald in 1989 and has also been published in the Age since 1993. Wilcox has illustrated numerous children’s books including her own work, Enzo the Wonderfish. Wilcox has won a Walkley award for cartooning and three Stanley awards for single gag and political cartoons.

Paul Zanetti is a Queensland-based freelance cartoonist whose work is syndicated both nationally and internationally.