The cartooning industry is still struggling to adapt to the 21st century media business model.
- Professor in Modern History, University of New England
The award-winning cartoonist Jon Kudelka died in Hobart on Sunday, aged 53. Over 30 years, his work resisted the polarisation of the contemporary Australian media.
Michael Leunig has died age 79. By turns over his long career, he was a poet, a prophet and a provocateur.
Is it really OK that the Americans, Canadians, French and New Zealanders manage to do better by their cartoon and comic heritage than Australia?
These disappearances demonstrate deep flaws in the way Australia maintains our rich cartoon heritage.
It’s the 20th anniversary of Best Australian Political Cartoons – and it has been quite a year. From Putin to Dutton to Albanese, our cartoonists have been hard at work skewering the powerful.
A cartoon commemorating the death of King William IV in 1837 would have been unthinkable; by the time Queen Victoria died in 1901, newspapers had changed.
Political cartoonists have found their own ways of coping with a new government
A New York Times decision has led to predictions of the death of cartooning. But rather than perishing, is the global art form just feeling the full force of technological and workplace change?
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