Shaun Yeo (born 1974) is a New Zealand freelance cartoonist and illustrator living in Invercargill. He produces daily political cartoons for the

Otago Daily Times The ''Otago Daily Times'' (ODT) is a newspaper published by Allied Press Ltd in Dunedin, New Zealand. The ''ODT'' is one of the country's four main daily newspapers, serving the southern South Island with a circulation of around 26,000 and a c ...

. For 28 years from 1991 through to 2019 his cartoons were published in ''

The Southland Times ''The Southland Times'' is the regional daily paper for Southland, including Invercargill, and neighbouring parts of Otago, in New Zealand. It is now owned by media business Stuff Ltd, formerly the New Zealand division of Fairfax Media. History ...

'' newspaper. Crying Kiwi 02

As well as his work for ''The Southland Times'', Yeo also supplied cartoons, illustrations and caricatures to many of the newspapers and magazines owned by

Stuff Limited Stuff Ltd (previously Fairfax New Zealand) is a privately held news media company operating in New Zealand. It operates Stuff (website), Stuff, the country's largest news website, and owns nine daily newspapers, including New Zealand's second ...

, working full-time for the company from 2001 through to 2018. From 2013 through to 2018 Yeo was the political cartoonist for the Sunday News. In May 2018 Yeo began a career as a freelance cartoonist and illustrator, with a focus on children's book illustrations; in 2006 he had written and illustrated his own book, ''The King, the Crown and the Dragon.'' In 2009 Yeo was a finalist at the ''Qantas Media Awards'' in the ''Best Art'' category and in 2017 was named a finalist in the ''Cartoonist of the Year'' category at the Canon Media Awards. In 2018 he was named a finalist in both the ''Best Artwork/Graphics'' and ''Cartoonist of the Year'' categories at the

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. In 2019 and 2021 he was again named a finalist in the ''Cartoonist of the Year'' category. Since 2015 his work has been collected by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive, part of the

Alexander Turnbull Library The National Library of New Zealand ( mi, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa) is New Zealand's legal deposit library charged with the obligation to "enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchanges with other nations" (''Nat ...

which wrote "... Yeo’s colourful work ... combines a comic art style with political and social commentary..." Yeo's illustration "Crying Kiwi" was created in response to the

Christchurch mosque shootings On 15 March 2019, two consecutive mass shootings occurred in a terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The attacks, carried out by a lone gunman who entered both mosques during Friday prayer, began at the Al Noor Mosque ...

on 15 March 2019, and was widely printed and shared in the aftermath of the attacks. Described as "perfectly capturing this shocking and horrendous tragedy", in the first two days after the shootings it was viewed by 3.4 million people.

Bibliography

* ''The Terribly Tired Try-Anything Tuatara'' (2003) * ''Henry the Southern Man Tuatara'' (2005) * ''The King, the Crown and the Dragon'' (2006) *''The ANZAC Biscuit Man'' (2019) *''Moa's Ark'' (2020) *Midmost Marvin (2020) *Pigs in Sheds (2020) *Duggie the Buggy (2021)

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