First Dog On The Moon takes out 2011 Political Cartooning Award
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 years, under different names and at different locations, and every year, I seem to think, ‘this is really the most dramatic year’,” he said.
”But this year really was quite unique because of, perhaps, the significance of some of the policy issues being debated, combined with the fierceness of the rhetoric.”
The show opened at the Museum of Australian Democracy last night with Andrew Marlton, cartoonist for Crikey.com and creator of First Dog on the Moon being named the winner of the 2011 Political Cartooning Award.
