David Rowe (David Alexander Rowe), is an Australian

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

. He grew up in

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. Rowe's father worked in the Department of Foreign Affairs and his mother worked in the Prime Minister’s Department. Rowe attended the Australian National University and initially studied economics, later studying art history and then political science, then studied graphic design at Reid TAFE, finally moving to Canberra Art School. He has made cartoons on political issues for the

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. He had earlier worked for the

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as a cartoonist in the 1980s. He regularly appears in the annual series ''Best Australian Political Cartoons'' edited by Russ Radcliffe. He is also well documented in the

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political cartoon inventory. In 2013 he was the Behind the Lines, Cartoonist of the year. Also in 2017. He also exhibited cartoons in

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in 2013. In 2015 he published a volume titled ''Mindless colouring 101''.

Publications in which illustrations are attributed

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References

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