And another advance
Posted on: January 31, 2012Also received last week, an advance copy of the very lovely The Night Before Mother’s Day, which is a poem by Doug MacLeod illustrated by me. As the title suggests, it’s about a woman lying in bed dreading the onslaught of Mother’s Day. It’s a beautiful little book, and it’s only going to cost $9.95 or thereabouts, so it’s almost as cheap as buying a card, and way better value. Out in April, published by Allen and Unwin. 
Viva the flip book!
Posted on: January 31, 2012
I received an advance copy of this wonderful book this week – it’s These are My Hands back to back with These are My Feet (or vice versa), previously published as separate volumes by Penguin. This version is published by the National Library of Australia. It’s completely gorgeous – the most tactile book I’ve ever done. It’ll be in the shops in April, and stay tuned for details of a launch event at the Library.
Face in a bucket
Posted on: November 23, 2011Here is a face of suds I found in a bucket. It was just floating there, I didn’t manipulate it at all. It made me laugh.
Think of the penguins
Posted on: September 27, 2011Just launched – a greeting card of my Hysterical Penguins cartoon. One of those cartoons that is funny but also not funny. It should be in bookshops and other places that sell my cards very soon – ask your local! (n.b. I’m always happy to send catalogues to new shops that might want to stock my cards, just let me know the details)
How diverse is your biblio?
Posted on: September 21, 2011
Today – 21 September – is International Day of Bibliodiversity, a time to celebrate independent publishing and books of all ilk (and I’m always up for celebrating books!). The day is an initiative of the International Alliance of Independent Publishers, those wonderful and special people who keep us diverse and heteroknowledgeable. Here’s their website for more information, http://www.alliance-editeurs.org/?lang=en I was asked to do a picture in honour of the day, and this is it.
Growl goes to China!
Posted on: August 18, 2011The gorgeous little monster Growl now speaks Chinese! I’m terribly impressed at her cleverness, and it’s nice to see that she’s just as cute in Chinese. 
For those of you who don’t know the story, Growl is a little monster who loves to growl. And gets into trouble for growling too much and so has to keep quiet. Until she saves the day of course!
This Story of Growl is published in China by New Buds Publishing House.
This page says words to the effect of: ‘And most of all she loves to…GROWL!’ Those beautiful shapes coming out of her mouth form the Chinese word for ‘growl’. (No idea how you’d pronounce it)
Carbon tax cartoon
Posted on: July 18, 2011My cartoon from my fill-in gig on the Age last Friday, 15 July 2011 (click on the orange ‘Carbon tax cartoon’ heading above)
Locum Cartoonist!
Posted on: July 8, 2011What a lark – I’ve had two days work being an Editorial Cartoonist in The Age, filling in for someone on holidays. (The Age is Melbourne’s daily broadsheet newspaper, for those of you elsewhere). Next week I’m filling in for another holidaying cartoonist, so I’ll be in the paper on Wednesday and Friday. Doing the daily editorial cartoon is like a puzzle you have to nut out, with really high stakes. Intense, but fun too.
Here are the links to the pages of The Age with yesterday’s cartoon and last week’s cartoon. (Yesterday’s cartoon won’t make much sense to people outside Australia, but last week’s is relevant to a number of places in the world, unfortunately)
World Refugee Day
Posted on: June 21, 2011World Refugee Day is 20 June, which was yesterday, but I didn’t get a chance to put up this cartoon then, so I’m doing it now. There is a petition going round about ending Mandatory Detention, that policy which is so harmful to people’s mental health, leaving them in limbo for years and years, locked up like prisoners. Hope you all get a chance to sign it. I did this cartoon a few years ago, but sadly, appallingly, it is still very current.
(p.s. Where would I be without Dorothea McKellar?)
Knitting in Public Day
Posted on: June 11, 2011Today Saturday 11 June is World Wide Knitting in Public Day. I’m not entirely sure what that entails beyond the fact that someone somewhere wants you clicking away in plain view, but it’s a good reason to put some knitting cartoons up on my blog. The last cartoon isn’t really about knitting per se, but it’s got knitting IN it, and I am very fond of it, so it’s come along for the ride.
So get out there and knit!
Cartoonist QandA
Posted on: May 31, 2011‘Ern Malley’s Cat’, a personage on Twitter, conducted an interview of cartoonists on Twitter – with David Pope, First Dog on the Moon, Jon Kudelka, Eric Lobbecke and me. Here’s the great picture he made of the panel so you can see what we all look like (well okay, not really)
Happy Easter
Posted on: April 21, 2011I’ve done a lot of cartoons about Christmas in my time, but I think only ever one with any kind of Easter reference. Here it is:
Let’s talk cartoons
Posted on: April 18, 2011A cartooning panel to end all cartooning panels – Sunday 1st May at 3 pm at the Williamstown Literary Festival. Chaired by Russ Radcliffe (cartoon book editor extraordinaire), it features First Dog on Moon (Crikey) and Mark Knight (Herald Sun) and me, Judy Horacek (freelance).
Festival of Children’s Lit: Sunday April 3
Posted on: March 28, 2011Come see me talk about my children’s books Sunday April 3, at 11.30. It’s part of the Melbourne Children’s Literature Festival being organised by the State Library of Victoria & the Wheeler Centre. Sunday is Family Day with loads of events – storytelling, theatre, talks, exhibitions, workshops, signings. Something for everyone & it’s all FREE! I’ll be ‘In Conversation’ on stage at the Wheeler Centre, and doing a workshop, and at 2.10pm, a book signing. Here’s the full program for the day, http://wheelercentre.com/static/files/assets/6d71a1f9/Childrens-book-festival-programme.pdf
