Guy Keverne Body (born 1967) is a New Zealand cartoonist. Born in

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, Body began drawing cartoons while at

Takapuna Grammar School Takapuna Grammar School is a state coeducational secondary school located in the suburb of Belmont on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. Established in 1927, the school mainly serves the eponymous suburb of Takapuna and the entire Devo ...

: "obscene versions of

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and

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." At the start of his career, he was advised by the prominent New Zealand cartoonist Sir Gordon Minhinnick to "go somewhere and learn how to draw."` Since 1986 Body has worked in New Zealand and the United Kingdom as a newspaper artist and cartoonist, creating information graphics, graphs, and editorial cartoons in the ''

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'', the ''

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'', the ''

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'', and the ''

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''. From 2004 he has been the backup editorial cartoonist for the ''Herald'', preparing the Monday cartoon and substituting for Rod Emmerson when needed. He has also worked as a book illustrator. After being a finalist in 1997 and 2009, he won Cartoonist of the Year at the 2012 Canon Media Awards. On 30 May 2016, the ''Herald'' published Body's cartoon of

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, depicting the presidential candidate as

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climbing a building, with a character labelled "

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" being asked “You do have a plan to shoot it if it gets dangerous, don’t you?". The cartoon was the subject of a complaint to the New Zealand Media Council, claiming it was "grossly offensive and went beyond satire and acceptable taste." The Council rejected the complaint, on the basis that "cartoons are regarded as opinion and are given wide license to challenge and confront". In August 2018 Body created a political cartoon on free speech, commenting on visiting right-wing Canadian speakers Stefan Molyneux and

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who were unable to secure a speaking venue. It went viral, being viewed over 550,000 times over four days. "If only I earned a dollar per click," Body lamented.

References

External links

Guy Body's websiteGuy Body cartoons
from the collection of the

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