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.
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Is it really OK that the Americans, Canadians, French and New Zealanders manage to do better by their cartoon and comic heritage than Australia?
Bruce Petty woke editorial cartooning from a sleepy period telling fairly anodyne jokes and turned it into a mode of serious – if also often hilarious – satirical commentary on politics and society.
A sociology professor uses the popular ‘Boondocks’ cartoon to explore contemporary issues of race in American society.
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.
Leak will be the first official portrait painter of a former Prime Minister who has not been an Archibald finalist.
A new film uses pastiche to explore the whimsical world of cartoonist Michael Leunig - but the man himself gives little away and the film skates over his curlier controversies.
With sharp political commentary just as likely to be found on Tumblr as in the pages of the Times, why aren’t the best internet memes being published in the nation’s top periodicals?
Cartoonists have to compress their images, so they often use stereotypes. This objectifies the subject and is thus, inevitably, an othering process.
The artist who illustrated A Christmas Carol was one of the best-known satirists of his time.
Bill Leak divided his audience, image by image. Causing offence was a KPI for him, not a risk.
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Professor of English, Flinders University
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Professor in Modern History, University of New England
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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University Teacher, Department of Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland
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Associate Professor of Communications (Social Media), Syracuse University