Tony Edwards is an Australian comic book artist and illustrator, best known for his creation, ''

Captain Goodvibes Captain Goodvibes, a.k.a. the Pig of Steel, is the creation of Australian cartoonist Tony Edwards and an icon of Australian surfing culture from the 1970s. In 1992 Captain Goodvibes was named by ''Australia's Surfing Life'' magazine as one of "Aus ...

''.

Biography

Tony Edwards was born in

Strathfield Strathfield is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 12 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the Municipality of Strathfield. A smal ...

in 1944 and originally trained as an architect. Edwards' best known creation ''

'' was published in May 1971 in '' Tracks''. The character was inspired by

Gilbert Shelton Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the iconic underground characters '' The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers'', ''Fat Freddy's Cat'', and ''Wonder W ...

Wonder Wart-Hog Wonder Wart-Hog (the "Hog of Steel") is an underground comic book character, a porcine parody of Superman, created by Gilbert Shelton and first published in 1962. Over the years, Shelton has worked on the strip in collaboration with various write ...

and achieved cult status with the Australian surfing community. The strip continued to run in ''Tracks'' until July 1981. The strip's popularity led to the publication of several Goodvibes

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s and a short film ''Hot to Trot'' (co-written by Ian Watson and Tony Barrell). His first children's story, ''Ralph the Rhino'', was published in 1982. Edwards also supplied the illustrations for ''Surfing, the Dictionary'' by Phil Jarratt, which was published in 1985. Edwards was illustrating for ''

The National Times ''The National Times'', later ''National Times on Sunday'', was a weekly newspaper published by Fairfax News from 1971 to 1986. Background The paper quickly developed a reputation for accurate investigative journalism, winning four consecutive ...

''/''National Times on Sunday'' from 1986 until it ceased publication in 1998, when he moved to the '' Sun-Herald''. In 1998 he won a

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for 'Best Artwork' for a cartoon, 'Hanna, I Hardly Knew You', published in

The Sydney Morning Herald ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper ...

on 13 September 1998.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Tony Australian comic strip cartoonists Australian cartoonists Australian comics artists 1944 births Living people Artists from Sydney