Paul Zanetti (born 8 September 1961) is a political cartoonist based in Australia. He was the youngest paid political cartoonist on a major metropolitan newspaper in Australia. While still at school, he regularly contributed to '' The Sun'' newspaper in Sydney, from the age of 16 years. In 1980, he joined The Sun art department in Sydney where he continued to contribute cartoons. Eight months later he accepted the full-time cartooning position on the Sydney '' Daily Telegraph'' and the '' Sunday Telegraph'' (Australia's largest circulating newspaper). This position had been vacated by Bill Mitchell, who had moved to ''

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'', taking Larry Pickering's position. At the age of 23 he won a

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for cartooning. In 1990, Zanetti moved to the United States to study

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. On his return, he pioneered political cartoon syndication in Australia, appearing in newspapers throughout Australia and internationally. In 1993, he co-founded Australian Newspaper Features (ANF) Pty Ltd, Australia's first content syndicator of features and columns by household Australian names, Ray Martin (What Does Ray Say?),

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(Lawsie),

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(Taking Stock),

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(Getting Angry), Paul 'Fatty' Vautin (Life With Fatty) and

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from

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(Hollywood Hotline). In the US, Zanetti's cartoons are syndicated through

Cagle Cartoons In 2001, cartoonist Daryl Cagle started Cagle Cartoons, Inc., which distributes the cartoons of sixty editorial cartoonists and fourteen columnists to more than 850 subscribing newspapers in the United States and around the world, including over h ...

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