Cartoonists
Costa A
Costa A, an Australian political cartoonist and writer, splits his time between cartooning and academia, teaching law at an Australian university.
Abu Abraham
Attupurathu Mathew Abraham, pen name Abu (1924–2002) was an Indian cartoonist, journalist, and author.
Matt Adams
Matt Adams is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator who contributes to The Canberra Times and MAD magazine. He has won numerous awards including Cartoon of the Year. Works displayed in Behind the Lines 2011 and 2012.
Dean Alston
Dean Alston is an editorial cartoonist for The West Australian. A past Walkley Award-winner for best cartoon and winner of two Stanley Awards for Best Single Gag Cartoonist. Alston has also worked as a cartographer and publican.
Badiucao
Badiucao is a Chinese – Australian political cartoonist, artist and rights activist, whose work addresses a variety of social and political issues.
Jonathan Bentley
Jonathan Bentley is an illustrator for The Courier-Mail. He has also worked as a freelance illustrator, publishing in The Independent, the Observer and the New Scientist, and over forty children’s books including seven of his own.
Kamsani Bin Salleh
Kamsani is a prolific artist, designer, multimedia artist and illustrator, who reflects the natural world with both his intricate and graphic interpretations of pre-colonial and post-colonial Australian histories.
Matt Bissett-Johnson
Matt Bissett-Johnson is a freelance political cartoonist and filmmaker, whose cartoons feature in the Melbourne Observer and Rationale magazine.
Bill Bramhall
Bill Bramhall is an American illustrator and is the editorial cartoonist for the New York Post.
Peter Broelman
Peter Broelman is a former president of the Australian Cartoonists Association whose nationally syndicated cartoons appear in a wide range of publications, including The Canberra Times, The Advertiser, The Courier Mail, The Geelong Advertiser and Sunraysia
Jo Brooker
Jo Brooker’s creative talent and illustrative skills have established her as one of the world’s most exciting and original media artists. Under the name ‘Applegate’, Brooker created editorial illustrations for News Limited newspapers for 10 years.
Warren Brown
Warren Brown, who signs his cartoons ‘Warren’, has been an editorial cartoonist since 1986, and his work appears regularly in the Sydney Daily Telegraph. He is also a television presenter, vintage car enthusiast and motoring columnist.
Harry Bruce
A born-and-bred north Queenslander, Bruce is a prolific artist who has been cartooning for regional newspapers in Queensland for more than 30 years. He often creates up to five cartoons a day, and his work has appeared in newspapers from Cairns to Longreach and most towns in-between.
Pat Campbell
Pat Campbell is a cartoonist and illustrator who worked for The Canberra Times until recently and Fairfax Media for the past 20 years.
Gaynor Alma Cardew
Gaynor Cardew was a Canberra-based printmaker, sculptor and cartoonist, who signed her work ‘Gaynor’. Her cartoons appeared in a range of publications, including government reports and newsletters, privately printed books and, occasionally, The Canberra Times.
Jason Chatfield
Jason Chatfield is an Australian cartoonist and illustrator based in New York.
Rod Clement
Rod Clement was a pocket cartoonist for the Australian Financial Review until 2016. In 1998, he won the Walkley award for best cartoon.
Noel Counihan
Noel Counihan (1913 - 1986) was born in Melbourne and began his career as a press caricaturist, freelancing in Australia, New Zealand and Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.
Mark David
Mark David is a Queensland-based cartoonist, illustrator and photographer, with more than 20 years’ experience in cartooning. He is widely published and has won several awards for his work.
Matt Davidson
Melbourne-based Matt Davidson’s cartoons have appeared in The Age for more than 20 years. In 2008 he won the Melbourne Press Club’s Quill Award for Best Illustration. Works also displayed at Behind the Lines 2011 and 2012.
Oslo Davis
Oslo Davis draws and writes for various publications and projects worldwide, including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Monthly, SBS and Readings.Graeme Dazeley
Graeme Dazeley always wanted to be a cartoonist and started freelancing while living in Tasmania. He was ‘prepared to work for anyone who would pay money and quite a few that didn’t’.
John Ditchburn
John Ditchburn has been the cartoonist for The Courier (Ballarat) since 1990. He is also regularly published in The Farmer.
Chris Downes
Based in Tasmania, Chris Downes regularly draws for the Hobart Mercury. He has also created works for MoAD and for the Lore podcast. Downes works for the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona).
George 'Zif' Dunstan
George Dunstan (1876–1946) was active as a political cartoonist in the period 1899–1922 and also worked as a journalist and a sign writer. He started as an artist for John Norton’s Truth and Sportsman, where he eventually assumed the pen name Zif.
Andrew Dyson
Andrew Dyson began working as a cartoonist for the The Herald(Melbourne), moving to The Sunday Age in 1989, and then to The Age 10 years later. His work also appears regularly in The Sydney Morning Herald.
Danny Eastwood
Danny Eastwood is a member of the Ngemba tribe of western New South Wales. He is a painter, illustrator and regular cartoonist for the Koori Mail.
Rod Emmerson
Rod Emmerson has been the editorial cartoonist for the New Zealand Herald since 2003. Previously, he was editorial cartoonist for APN News & Media (Aust), based in Queensland.
Jules Faber
Jules Faber is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator who has worked in animation, editorial cartooning and live caricaturing.
John 'Polly' Farmer
John Farmer was a political cartoonist for the Sunday Tasmanian and the Hobart Mercury, and at one time was the Mercury’s longest-serving cartoonist. He drew his first cartoon in 1985, and now ‘draws from home’.
Rocco Fazzari
Rocco Fazzari’s cartooning and illustrative work appeared in Fairfax publications for 30 years. He is now an independent multimedia artist and produces a regular blog for Pluto Media.
First Dog on the Moon
First Dog on the Moon (who used to be known as Andrew Marlton) has been a full-time cartoonist since 2007, first at Crikey and then, since 2014, at The Guardian Australia. He has also written and illustrated books and performed live on stage.
Sarah Firth
Based on Wurundjeri country, Sarah Firth is an Eisner-Award-winning cartoonist, a comic artist and writer, speaker and graphic recorder.
David Follett
David Follett has illustrated and storyboarded for the advertising, animation, film, gaming, publishing and packaging industries and for numerous children’s books.
Lindsay Foyle
Born in Sydney, Lindsay Foyle has been drawing cartoons professionally since 1975. He was deputy editor of The Bulletin in the 1980s and worked as a journalist and cartoonist on The Australian from 1996 to 2009.
John Frith
John Frith (1906–2000) was one of Australia’s most prominent and prolific cartoonists for more than four decades years. His work was printed in The Bulletin, The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne’s Herald over his long career.
Andrew Fyfe
Andrew Fyfe started his television career in 1985 as an on-air cartoonist for Hey Hey It’s Saturday. After 14 years with the show, he went on to produce animated cartoons for Nine’s The Footy Show.
Matt Golding
Melbourne-based Matt Golding has been cartooning for more than 25 years.
Gorkie
Sarah Nagorcka, also known as Gorkie, is a multidisciplinary artist based in Melbourne / Narrm. Her cartooning work has previously featured in Crikey. The Monthly and was shortlisted for the Overland Fair Australia Prize.
William Ellis Green
William Ellis Green (WEG) (1923 - 2008) was a prolific and popular mid 20th century Melbourne newspaper cartoonist. Green made his first artistic income painting Japanese flags while stationed in New Guinea during WW2.
Jess Harwood
Jess Harwood is an artist and campaigner living on Gadigal land in Sydney.
Rolf Heimann
Rolf Heimann was born in Germany. After migrating to Australia, he worked as a fruit picker, in factories and on the railways. He took part in anti-nuclear protests and sailed the Pacific for two years before penning his first cartoon in 1975.
Megan Herbert
Megan Herbert is an artist, writer and cartoonist whose work appears in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She has been writing for television and film, cartooning, live-drawing, designing products and creating children’s books for more than 20 years.
Judy Horacek
Judy Horacek is a freelance cartoonist and picture book creator. Her cartoons have been published widely in newspapers and magazines, including The Australian, The Canberra Times and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Pat Hudson
Based in Melbourne, Pat Hudson is a freelance artist, cartoonist and caricaturist. He has created works for educational organisations, corporates and for private commissions.
Edmund Iffland
Edmund Iffland is an illustrator/designer practicing in Sydney, Australia. Iffland’s work is multi-disciplinary, working as a freelance storyboard artist, political cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer, and infographic/presentation designer.
Tom Jellett
Tom Jellett joined News Limited in 1998 and also freelances as an illustrator for Penguin Books. He was a Walkley finalist in 2000. Work displayed at Behind the Lines 2011.
Fiona Katauskas
Sydneysider Fiona Katauskas has been a cartoonist since 1997, and is a cartoonist for The Guardian and The Echidna Newsletter.
Simon Kneebone
Simon Kneebone is an Adelaide-based freelance cartoonist and illustrator. He regularly illustrates for The Big Issue. His work has appeared in the New Internationalist, the website Pro Bono, and the journal Australian Options.
Mark Knight
Mark Knight is a cartoonist for the Melbourne Herald Sun, having been the last editorial cartoonist for its predecessor, The Herald. He is also well known in Melbourne for his AFL premiership posters.
Jon Kudelka
Jon Kudelka is published in the Hobart Mercury and The Saturday Paper. Jon has won two Walkley Awards (2008 and 2018), a Stanley Award and a Kennedy Award.
Judy Kuo
Judy Kuo is a visual artist and activist, living and working on Wurundjeri country. She is passionate about developing a politically energised art practice, particularly in areas of anti-racism, workers’ rights and disability justice.
Glen Le Lievre
Glen Le Lievre is a crowd-funded cartoonist working out of Sydney. His cartoons have appeared in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review, MAD, Private Eye, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and Time.
Sean Leahy
Sean Leahy is a political cartoonist for The Courier Mail in Brisbane. He also writes and draws the comic strip Beyond the Black Stump.
Johannes Leak
Johannes Leak is an artist, cartoonist and illustrator based in New South Wales. His cartoons appear regularly in The Australian and in Tracks surfing magazine.
Bill Leak
Bill Leak (1956–2017) was the daily editorial cartoonist on The Australian until 2017. He has won numerous cartooning awards including eight Gold Stanley awards for cartoonist of the year. Works displayed at Behind the Lines 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Simon Letch
Simon Letch is an illustrator and editorial cartoonist for The Sydney Morning Herald and has worked for Fairfax Media for more than 10 years. On his X page he also describes himself as a ‘surfer at Bronte, cook at home’. Work displayed at Behind the Lines 2018.
Brett Lethbridge
Brett Lethbridge is an artist, gallery owner and cartoonist. His editorial cartoons have appeared in Brisbane’s Courier-Mail and Sunday Mail since 1995 and have also been published by The West Australian.
Michael Leunig
Michael Leunig is an Australian cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet. His commentary on political, cultural and emotional life spans more than 50 years.
Peter Lewis
Peter Lewis was born in Mungindi in 1953 on the Queensland side of the border and now resides in Newcastle. After graduating in fine arts, he worked as a pizza cook, labourer, taxi driver, commercial artist and ballet dancer. Since 1986 he has been editorial cartoonist at the Newcastle Herald.
Eric Löbbecke
Eric Löbbecke is an award-winning illustrator and cartoonist for books, newspapers, magazines and advertising since 1988. He has worked for News Limited on The Australian and the Sydney Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph.
Reg Lynch
Reg Lynch is a cartoonist, illustrator, designer and occasional curator, currently living in the north-west of Tasmania. Lynch’s work regularly appears in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald.
Peter MacMullin
Peter MacMullin is an editorial cartoonist for Adelaide’s Sunday Mail.
Will Mahony
Francis William ‘Will’ Mahony (1905–1989) was an Australian cartoonist and printmaker, most widely associated with Sydney’s Daily News, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mirror. Works also displayed at Behind the Lines 2013, 2015 and 2016.
Claude Marquet
Claude Marquet (1869 – 1920) was an Australian political cartoonist, noted for his unique illustrative style and radical political views. His work was published in The Bulletin, Tocsin, Table Talk, The Australian Worker, and Melbourne Punch.
Matthew Martin
Matthew Martin is a cartoonist for The New Yorker and The Sydney Morning Herald. He has been a cartoonist for The Times (London) and during his 11 years living in New York his drawings were published in most major American newspapers and magazines.
Philip May
Philip May (1864–1903) helped define the 20th century style of cartooning while working for The Bulletin in Sydney in the late 1880s with an economy of line and simplicity.
David 'Macca' McArthur
David aka Macca is a Melbourne-born cartoonist and artist who has spent his career working in media and publishing. Macca has worked for several publications including many years with The Herald Sun as a daily Editorial Cartoonist covering sport, business and news.
Alan Moir
Alan Moir has been an editorial cartoonist for The Sydney Morning Herald since 1984 and, prior to that, for The Bulletin and The Courier-Mail. Moir was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1999.
Wes Mountain
Wes Mountain is a London-based freelance illustrator and cartoonist who was previously Multimedia Editor for The Conversation, where he put together all kinds of fun interactive and animated things in between drawing cartoons and comics.
Peter Nicholson
Peter Nicholson has worked for Nation Review, the Australian Financial Review, The Age (for 18 years) and The Australian (until 2016). He also produced weekly animated political cartoons for The Australian Online.
Van Nishing
Queensland-born and Melbourne-based Van T Rudd, also known as Van Nishing, is a political street artist, muralist and sculptor who has been producing visual art for 30 years. He has long been fascinated by different methods of creating social and political commentary.
Nordacious
Brisbane-based artist James Hillier, also known as Nordacious, specialises in portraiture, creating work inspired by pop culture, Australiana, social and political commentary and queer + camp. Hillier has had three solo exhibitions since 2015.
Vince O'Farrell
Vince O’Farrell was an editorial cartoonist for the Illawarra Mercury from 1986 until 2013. He won the Rotary cartoons award six times, and was nominated for the Australian Cartoonists’ Association cartoonist of the year in 2003.
Ward O'Neill
Ward O’Neill has been working as an illustrator and cartoonist since 1972 for The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The National Times, and The Bulletin.
Meg O'Shea
Meg O’Shea is an independent comic artist based in Sydney, on the unceded lands of the Wangal clan.
Jim Pavlidis
Jim Pavlidis has been at The Age as a press artist, designer and illustrator/cartoonist in two stints since 1987. His gap years of 1995–98 were spent at the Independent and Daily Mail newspapers in London, and at the Paris Free Voice.
Bruce Petty
Bruce Petty is one of Australia’s most celebrated cartoonists. He has worked for a number of Australian newspapers including the Daily Mirror, The Australian and The Age. Bruce Petty’s bold ‘scribbles’ are as at home on the screen as on the page.
Elyce Phillips
Elyce Phillips is an illustrator, writer and comedian.
David Pope
David Pope grew up in Canberra and began drawing cartoons for the underground press in the 1980s. He became editorial cartoonist for the Sydney Sun-Herald, returning to Canberra as editorial cartoonist for The Canberra Times in 2008.
Geoff Pryor
Geoff Pryor emerged from retirement to draw a weekly cartoon for The Saturday Paper, before retiring a second time. Before that, he had been the political cartoonist for The Canberra Times for thirty years, where he was succeeded by David Pope.
David Rowe
David Rowe is a Sydney-based cartoonist and caricaturist whose works appeared in The Canberra Times, The Independent (London), and the Times Literary Supplement before he joined the Aus tralian Financial Review as editorial cartoonist 28 years ago.
ROY
Chris ‘Roy’ Taylor has been a professional cartoonist and illustrator for over 25 years and his work appears daily in the Herald Sun. Roy creates daily cartoons (which can range from federal politics to the Kardashians), illustrations, and fine art.
John Shakespeare
John Shakespeare is a Sydney-based cartoonist, caricaturist and illustrator for The Sydney Morning Herald, having previously worked for the Brisbane Courier-Mail and The Sydney Sun.
Ian Sharpe
Ian Sharpe is best known for his cartoons and illustrations which featured prominently in The Canberra Times newspaper for 24 years from 1988 to 2012.
Greg 'Smithy' Smith
Greg ‘Smithy’ Smith is an editorial and sporting cartoonist based in Western Australia, where he was born. He started cartooning at Perth’s Daily News in the 1980s and, for more than a decade, has drawn cartoons for Perth’s Sunday Times and Perth Now.
Philip Somerville
Freelance cartoonist Phil Somerville lives in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales.
John Spooner
Melbourne-based John Spooner began cartooning in the early 1970s and his works have appeared in many Australian and international publications, including The Age from 1977 to 2016. His cartoons now appear regularly in The Australian.
Peter Sully
Peter Sully has worked for 40 years in the newspaper industry as a graphic designer, cartoonist and illustrator. He is a member of the Australian Cartoonists Association and of Cartoon Movement, a global platform for editorial cartoons and comics journalism.
Ron Tandberg
Ron Tandberg (1943–2018) was first published in the Melbourne Age in 1972 and was famous for his pocket cartoons. He was the winner of nine Walkley awards for best cartoon and two prestigious Gold Walkley awards.
Adele K Thomas
Adele K Thomas is an illustrator, director and art director, with over thirteen years of experience in animation film and TV design, children’s books, advertising and apps.She is currently working for Flying Bark Productions on Disney’s Moon Girl and D
John Tiedemann
John Tiedemann is an illustrator and cartoonist, currently working for News Limited illustrating the OpEd page for The Daily Telegraph. He has previously worked for Fairfax Media, The Canberra Times, and The Bulletin.
Jos Valdman
Jos Valdman is a cartoonist for Adelaide’s Advertiser and the NT News. With a career spanning two decades, he joined the Advertiser in 2008.
Sam Wallman
Sam Wallman is a comics-journalist, cartoonist and labour activist based in Melbourne/Narrm, mostly on Wurundjeri country. His work has been published by The Guardian, The New York Times, The Age, the ABC and SBS.
Andrew Weldon
Andrew Weldon is a freelance cartoonist based in Melbourne. He has been the cartoonist for The Big Issue (Australia) since its inception in 1996.
Samuel Garnet Wells
Samuel Garnet Wells (1885–1972) was a popular political and sporting cartoonist who worked predominantly in Melbourne. Work displayed at Behind the Lines 2011.
Cathy Wilcox
Sydney-based cartoonist and illustrator Cathy Wilcox has been drawing cartoons since 1989. Her work appears almost daily in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She is the president of the Australian Cartoonists Association.