Lee Sheppard (born 22 August 1974) 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 ...

and animator. He currently resides in

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and is developing and writing projects for animated film & television.

Personal

Sheppard was born in

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to Barry Ernest Sheppard and Margaret Crichton-Reid.

Education

Sheppard spent 2 years studying Fine Arts at Paddington Art School under tuition by

Stephen Wesley Gorton Stephen Wesley Gorton (13 August 1952 – 23 October 2015) was an internationally renowned Australian artist and the founder of the Paddington Art School. He lived in Sydney, Australia. Education Stephen Wesley Gorton graduated with BA in archite ...

in 1993, then Classical Advanced Animation studies at Enmore Design Centre in 1995, and later on Screenwriting for Children's Animated Television Series at th
Australian Film Television Radio School (AFTRS)
in 2007.

Career

Sheppard's early career began while drawing political comics for Fairfax community newspapers in his late teens. He then worked as an animator on numerous animated children's TV series such as Wicked! Gloria's House and Crocadoo. He was also the comic strip artist for political cartoon, Cactus Island, a strip based on the multi-award-winning radio sho
"How Green was my Cactus"
Sheppard used the pseudonym D. Denko instead of his real name in this comic strip. Cactus Island was syndicated throug
Auspac Media
which was published in regional newspapers across Australia between 1999 and 2006. In 1994 he was nominated as a member by Jim Russell (The Potts) to join th
Australian Cartoonists' Association
(ACA). Lee was on the committee for 5 years, where he has held the positions of Secretary, NSW State Vice President and Deputy President. And in 1998 he was again nominated by Jim Russell to the ranks of th
National Cartoonists Society
in the United States. Sheppard is also a member of th
Australian Film Institute
an
Australian Writer's Guild

Awards

In 2003, Sheppard won the

Stanley Award The Stanley Awards, also known as The Stanleys, are an annual comics award issued by the Australian Cartoonists' Association which recognize the best of Australian cartoonists and cartooning. They are named after Stan Cross and were first orga ...

'
Best Cartoon on the Night
http://www.cartoonists.org.au/stanleys.htm in Ettalong.

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