Jules Faber is a

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, caricature artist,

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and finished artist located in

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. In 2009, he became President of the

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and was again elected to the position in November 2012.

Life

Faber's first collection of

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poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

and

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comics a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate ...

was published in 2004. He was also co-editor and a major contributor to the Australian anthology ''Sporadic'', a comic featuring many Australian cartoonists with an animation background - Faber was background

inker The inker (sometimes credited as the finisher or embellisher) is one of the two line artists in traditional comic book production. The penciller creates a drawing, the inker outlines, interprets, finalizes, retraces this drawing by using a pencil ...

on nine episodes from Season Two of

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's '

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' - a show made for

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s in the US television industry. Other work includes the

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color comic ''Golgotha: Book One'' (2005), the trilogy of 'The Clunkertons' children's books and various newspaper editorial cartooning positions. Faber's second

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of works 'Ten Years and a Day' opened at the Verve Cafe in Brisbane's Metro Arts building on 6 February 2008 (?). He was a DVD reviewer for the website and ill-fated

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''What DVD''. He is currently delving further into children's book illustration. His most prominent recent work is illustrating the Weirdo series of books written by Anh Do.

References

External links

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Jules Faber at the Australian Cartoonists' Association
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian comics artists Australian cartoonists Australian caricaturists {{Comics-artist-stub