December 2011
3 posts
First Dog On The Moon takes out 2011 Political...
Every year is a good year for political cartoonists, but 2011 was a particularly dramatic one.
Or maybe it just seems that way.
Curator of the yearly Behind the Lines cartoon exhibition at Old Parliament House Guy Hansen has been doing the job for so long that every year looks like a boon for the country’s visual satirists.
”I’ve been doing this exhibition on and off for 15...
November 2011
22 posts
2011 Walkley Awards
Winner of the Walkley for Best Artwork 2011: Simon Bosch
Winner of the Walkley for Best Cartoon 2011: David Rowe
Congratulations!
ACA President Jason Chatfield talks about the...
“Next week in Beverly Hills, several million dollars will be spent buying the...”
– This is what $2 million worth of comic book art look likes (via jasonchatfield)
Why Are Political Cartoons Incendiary?
(From the New York Times): AS the founding editor and publisher in the late 1950’s of Monocle, a “leisurely quarterly of political satire” (that meant we came out twice a year) whose motto was “In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king,” whenever the offices of a satirical magazine are firebombed, I’m interested.
So earlier this month, when a Molotov cocktail landed in the offices of the...
27th Annual Stanley Awards
FINALISTS AND WINNERS
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ILLUSTRATOR
Sponsored by WACOM
Anton Emdin -WINNER
David Follett
Pat Campbell
Matthew Martin
Jozef Szkeres
COMIC STRIP CARTOONIST
Sponsored by The Herald Sun
Tony Lopes -WINNER
Gary Clark
Glen Le Lievre
Alex Hallatt
Andrew Marlton
EDITORIAL/POLITICAL CARTOONIST
Sponsored by The Sydney Morning Herald
David Pope...
WA Media Awards
Congratulations to ACA Member Greg Smith who won Best Illustration, Cartoon or Graphic
Greg Smith, “Ripper’s revolution”, “Sorry Liz”, “Forget Mcmansions”, The Sunday Times
Judges comments: When Colin Barnett made his multi-million-dollar decision to relocate his office to a heritage -listed building, he was in for trouble from Perth’s cartoonists and commentators. Grand designs of...
October 2011
10 posts
Congratulations to the 2011 Walkley Nominees
Cartoon
Oslo Davis, The Age
“Assange”
Mark Knight, Herald Sun
“Those beady little eyes”
David Rowe, The Australian Financial Review
“Mini Murdoch”
Commended:
David Pope, Canberra Times
“We’ve got to start early tomorrow, my dear”
Artwork
Simon Bosch, The Sydney Morning Herald
“The dark legacy of child abuse”
David Rowe, The Australian Financial Review
“Budget 2011”
Mario Lendvai, The...
September 2011
5 posts
Watchjasonchatfield:
Paintbrush for iPad - the Sensu Brush.
August 2011
9 posts
Drawing them in
From John Bailey in THE AGE: Stylish, sophisticated and ambitious, the modern comic is coming soon to a train station near you.
Step on to a train this Friday morning and you might be confronted by a change in your fellow passengers. Nothing dramatic, but something will have shifted. They’ll still be listening to their iPods, sipping their coffees and reading their comic books. Wait -...
Australian Political Cartooning, A Rich Rradition
(From http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-political-cartooning )
Australia has a strong and vibrant history of political cartooning. Since the 1830s, when political cartoons were first featured in Australian newspapers, they have provided satirical, witty or humorous comment on political and public affairs, social customs, fashions, sports events and personalities.
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Last day to submit your Stanleys entry!
Today is the last day to submit your entry for the 27th Annual Stanley Awards. Don’t miss out! Make sure your entry is in by midnight tonight to stanleys@cartoonists.org.au
STANLEYS ENTRIES - ONLY TWO MORE DAYS!
If you haven’t sent your Stanleys entry in yet, you only have TWO MORE DAYS to get them in. Send them to stanleys@cartoonists.org.au to make sure you’re in the year book, and eligible to be voted on for the 27th Annual Stanley Awards.
Entries close THIS FRIDAY, (19th August.) The entry guidelines can be found...
Swipe at Crumb means fans the big losers
Nicholas Pickard, freelance journalist and former NSW government arts advisor, writes for Crikey:
Cartoon and illustration fans can thank The Sunday Telegraph’s Jesse Phillips for Robert Crumb cancelling his trip to Australia by taking an Attorney-General’s department statement out of context and seeking dangerous comments by an extreme organisation. “A self-confessed pervert whose...
July 2011
12 posts
Calling all ACA Members!
Australian Cartoonists Association www.cartoonists.org.au
The ACA is now calling for submissions to the 2011 Stanley Awards. It’s all systems go! Please check out the SUBMISSIONS PDF for all the details.
Download the PDF here: http://cartoonists.org.au/files/content/Stanleys-information-2011-web.pdf
For queries email stanleys@cartoonists.org.au. The Stanleys are in Sydney...