OTHER INFORMATION
about this
site
Most of the Cartoons on this website were originally published in the Ballarat Courier. While some of the cartoons deal with general and international issues the majority of them relate to Australian national and regional happenings. Small summaries giving background information about events that each cartoon deals with can be found below the cartoon thumbnails or on the web pages that list the cartoons.
This site was first set up on the 27th October, 1998 using Microsoft's Front page programs. An slightly more modern version of the website was launched on the 19th November, 2009 using Microsoft's Expression Web program.
the
difference between feature and pocket cartoons
Most of the cartoons posted on this site can be classified as
editorial cartoons, but I also include some pocket cartoons.
An Editorial cartoon is one that sits on the editorial page of a newspaper. They are usually drawn about political and social events of the day. I personally prefer to concentrate on broader social themes rather than day to day party political manoeuvrings. The size of the average editorial cartoon is approximately twelve by eighteen centimetres, however the space I have in the Ballarat Courier is slightly smaller (ten by eight centimetres). Which accounts for why my editorial cartoons are more boxed shape and have less detail than most editorial cartoons by other cartoonists.
A pocket cartoon is a small cartoon with a printed size of approximately four by six centimetres. It is drawn to accompany an article in a newspaper or magazine and it's subject matter is usually directly related to the article it's with. Unfortunately, because of copyright reasons, I am unable to publish the articles that each cartoon accompanied.
websites of
other Australian cartoonists
Terry Sedgwick (The Feral Eye) Gag cartoons. Witty and weird, mainly non political.
Judy Horacek Thinking person's cartoons with a feminist perspective.
Tohby Riddle Somewhat quirky cartoonist and illustrator with an urban intellectual bent.
Matt Golding The Melbourne Times and the Sunday Age.
Scratch Media (Heinrich Hinze) Editorial cartoonist at the Canberra times. Arguably the best illustrative cartoonist in the country.
Andrew Weldon Melbourne based gag and political cartoonist. Draws for the Big Issue, the Melbourne Age and a range of other publications.
Michael Leunig Very innovative cartoonist, draws mainly for the Age newspaper.
Peter Nicholson Very talented cartoonist and animator. Works for the Australian newspaper.
Of course this is not a complete list of Australian cartoonists, it is simple a list of those cartoonists that I personally admire and that have their own websites.