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List Of Editorial Cartoonists
This is a list of notable editorial cartoonists of the past and present sorted by nationality. An editorial cartoonist is an artist, a cartoonist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. The list is incomplete; it lists only those editorial cartoonists for whom a Wikipedia article already exists. International *Patrick Chappatte, ''International New York Times'' *Kevin Kallaugher, Kal, ''The Economist'' Algeria *Ali Dilem Argentina *Miguel Brascó Australia * Dean Alston * Patrick Cook * Stan Cross * John Ditchburn * Christopher Downes, ''Hobart Mercury''Christopher Downes’ Cartoons* William Ellis Green * Arthur Horner (cartoonist), Arthur Horner * Geoff "Jeff" Hook * Mark Knight (cartoonist), Mark Knight * Bill Leak * Michael Leunig * Stewart McCrae * Malcolm McGookin * Alan Moir * George Molnar * Peter Nicholson (cartoonist), Peter Nicholson * Pat Oliphant * Ward O'Neill * Bruce Petty * Larry Pickering * Geoff Pryor * Paul Rig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Editorial Cartoonist
An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. Their cartoons are used to convey and question an aspect of daily news or current affairs in a national or international context. Political cartoonists generally adopt a caricaturist style of drawing, to capture the likeness of a politician or subject. They may also employ humor or satire to ridicule an individual or group, emphasize their point of view or comment on a particular event. Media trends The traditional and most common outlet for political cartoonists is the pocket cartoon, which usually appears in the editorial page or the front news page of a newspaper, in the front news section of a newspaper. Editorial cartoons are not usually found in the dedicated comics section, although certain cartoons or comic strips have achieved crossover status. Historically, these are quick, hand-drawn ink drawings, scann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Knight (cartoonist)
Mark Knight (born 1962) is an Australian cartoonist. He is currently the editorial cartoonist for the '' Herald Sun'', a daily tabloid newspaper in Melbourne. Knight was also the last editorial cartoonist for one of the ''Herald Sun'''s joint predecessor newspapers, the afternoon broadsheet '' The Herald''. Childhood Born in Marrickville, Sydney, Knight grew up in Lakemba, attended Wiley Park Primary School and then Narwee Boys' High School. He showed an early interest in drawing which was encouraged by his artistic father. Knight's first cartoons were of his family and their idiosyncrasies, drawn at family gatherings. When he was six years old, Knight's father bought him Paul Rigby's cartoon annual of 1967; Rigby's work influence his artwork for many years. He created scrapbooks of Rigby's cartoons cut from ''The Daily Telegraph'', and studied and imitated them while developing his cartooning style. Knight started a cadetship in 1980 in the Fairfax art department, filling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Rigby
Paul Crispin Rigby AM (25 October 1924 – 15 November 2006) was an Australian cartoonist who worked for newspapers in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. He usually worked under the name Rigby. Early life Rigby was born in Sandringham, Victoria,The Independent (2 January 2007) ''Paul Rigby Australia's - No 1 Cartoonist''. Retrieved 28 March 2015. on 25 October 1924, the second son of James Rigby, a telephone engineer, and his wife Violet Wood. He studied at Brighton Technical School before leaving at 15 to work as a |
Geoff Pryor
Geoffrey Pryor (born 1944 in Canberra) is a retired Australian political cartoonist. He was the editorial cartoonist for ''The Canberra Times'' newspaper between 1978 and 2008. During this 30-year career, Pryor generally drew seven cartoons per week for the newspaper. Pryor's style was influenced by his predecessor at ''The Canberra Times'', Larry Pickering. His graphic style is ornate, much more detailed and portrait-like than that of such contemporaries as Patrick Cook. He was cartoonist for ''The Saturday Paper ''The Saturday Paper'' is an Australian weekly newspaper, launched on 1 March 2014 in hard copy, as an online newspaper and in mobile news format. The paper is circulated throughout Australian capital cities and major regional centres. Since ...'' until his "second retirement" in December 2018. Reference sources Portrait of Geoff Pryor, cartoonistby Virginia Wallace-Crabbe, 1997 Interview with Geoff Pryor, cartoonist(sound recording) interviewed by Ann Turner, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Pickering
Lawrence Pickering (18 October 1942 – 19 November 2018) was an Australian political cartoonist, caricaturist, and illustrator of books and calendars. The winner of four Walkley Awards for his work, Pickering largely retired from political cartooning in the 1980s but returned to the field in 2011. His cartoons lampooning then Prime Minister Julia Gillard in 2012 were particularly vitriolic, and many of his later cartoons were considered offensive to several minority groups. Career Pickering was born in Australia on 18 October 1942. Initially employed as a proofreader, Pickering was able to gain the attention of John Allan, the editor of ''The Canberra Times''. Allan gave Pickering the opportunity to work for the paper as a political cartoonist, and Pickering's early work coincided with the Whitlam and Fraser governments. It was at this time his first book of cartoons, ''The Hansard Papers'', written by Reuters Economic Services Canberra correspondent Michael Guy and illust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Petty
Bruce Leslie Petty, born 23 November 1929 at Doncaster, Victoria, Doncaster, a suburb of Melbourne, is one of Australia's best known political satire, political satirists and cartoonists.Bruce Petty Profile , The Age, accessed 13 September 2008 He is a regular contributor to Melbourne's ''The Age'' newspaper. His intricate images have been described as "doodle-bombs" for their free-association of links between various ideas, people and institutions. ''Age'' journalist Martin Flanagan (journalist), Martin Flanagan wrote that Petty "re-invented the world as a vast scribbly machine with interlocking cogs and levers that connected people in wholly logical but unlikely ways." Work Petty began working for the Owen Brothers animation studio in Melbourne in 1949, before moving to the Uni ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ward O'Neill
Ward O’Neill (born 1951) is an Australian illustrator, caricaturist and cartoonist, who has contributed to a variety of newspapers, including ''The London Daily Mail'', ''The Australian'', '' Sydney Morning Herald'', '' National Times'', the ''Bulletin'' and '' Australian Financial Review''. His credits include Walkley Awards The annual Walkley Awards are presented in Australia to recognise and reward excellence in journalism. They cover all media including print, television, documentary, radio, photographic and online media. The Gold Walkley is the highest prize and ... for illustration in 1982, 1984 and 1986. External links Financial Review Cartoon GalleryWard O'Neill collectionheld and digitised by the National Library of Australia Australian editorial cartoonists 1951 births Living people {{cartoonist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Oliphant
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Oliphant (born 24 July 1935) is an Australian-born American artist whose career spanned more than sixty years. His body of work as a whole focuses mostly on American and global politics, culture, and corruption; he is particularly known for his caricatures of American presidents and other powerful leaders. Over the course of his long career, Oliphant produced thousands of daily editorial cartoons, dozens of bronze sculptures, as well as a large oeuvre of drawings and paintings. He retired in 2015. Biography Australian period Oliphant was born in a private hospital in the Adelaide suburb of Maylands to Donald Knox Oliphant and Grace Lillian Oliphant, née Price, of Rosslyn Park. He was raised in a small cabin in Aldgate, in the Adelaide Hills. His father worked as a draftsman for the government, and Oliphant credited him with sparking his interest in drawing. His early education was in a one-room schoolhouse, followed by Unley High School. Oliphant's c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Nicholson (cartoonist)
Peter Nicholson (born 1946) is an Australian political cartoonist, caricaturist and sculptor. He has won five Walkley Awards. Nicholson has also produced animated political cartoons for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the TV series ''Fast Forward'', and was involved in the Rubbery Figures television series. He married Mary Nicholson in 1972 and had three children. Tom Nicholson, Emily Nicholson and Dan Nicholson. Walkley awards "Avenue of Prime Ministers" in the Botanical Gardens in Ballarat Nicholson created the busts of Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, which are part of the Prime Ministers Avenue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Molnar
George Molnar ( hu, Molnár György) (25 April 1910, Nagyvárad – 16 November 1998, Sydney) was born in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary and came to Australia in 1939, where he practiced as a cartoonist and architecture lecturer.Attila Urmenyhazi, 'Molnar, George (1910–1998)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University accessed 26 September 2021 His work featured in the '' Sydney Morning Herald'' and '' Daily Telegraph'' newspapers for many years. Molnar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Moir
Alan Moir (born 1947) is an Australian caricaturist and cartoonist who was born in New Zealand. He has been the Editorial Cartoonist for the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' since 1984, and previously ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin'' and Brisbane's ''Courier-Mail''. His work on international events is also syndicated regularly through The New York Times Syndicate. Alan's credits include being six-time winner of "Australian Editorial Cartoonist of the Year", a Churchill Fellowship in 1999, Walkley award for Political Cartooning in 2000 and 2006 and the UN Award for Political Cartooning 1994. He also won the Gold Stanley award in 1985. Inducted into "The Australian Cartoonists' Hall of Fame" 2018. In 2019 a cartoon on global warming was published in "The Oxford Illustrated History of the World" His work is held in several collections including the National Library of Australia, the National Museum of Australia, the National Library of New Zealand, the State Library ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm McGookin
Malcolm "Malc" McGookin (born 1956 in Kilwinning, Scotland) is a British cartoonist also known for his work as an animator and illustrator. He immigrated to Australia in 1995 and presently lives in Brisbane, Australia. Cartooning career Malc McGookin began cartooning as a teenager working for the ''Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald'' in Scotland. By 18 he had his first regular feature in the British weekly magazine, ''Tit-Bits''. In the late 1970s. After attending college to develop an animation showreel, Malcolm undertook a career at Cosgrove Hall, starting out as an animation assistant, later to become a Key Animator and scriptwriter, a period he still refers to as "the best six years of my professional life". Malcolm emigrated to Australia as an animator and scriptwriter for various TV series, a move he came to regret, later referencing his employers as "the worst TV cartoon producers in the history of the world". Nevertheless, Malcolm loved Australia itself and moved to Queensl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
