Best Australian Political Cartoons 2011
edited by Russ Radcliffe
Published by Scribe
November 2011
RRP: $29.95
The year-in-review as witnessed by our funniest and most subversive
political cartoonists. With Dean Alston, firstdogonthemoon, Mark Knight,
Jon Kudelka, Bill Leak, Alan Moir, Peter Nicholson, Vince O’ Farrell,
Bruce Petty, David Pope, David Rowe, John Spooner, Ron
Tandberg, Andrew Weldon,Cathy Wilcox, and many more…
'Radcliffe is Australia’s leading archivist of political cartoons
... and he gives us all a laugh. More importantly, he gives us a record
of our political life in a manner accessible to very wide audience.'
— Haydon Manning, Australian Review of Public Affairs
Are We Nearly There Yet?
an epic saga of courage amidst turmoil
by Alan Moir
edited by Russ Radcliffe
Published by Scribe
RRP: $29.95
From the heady enthusiasm and promise of Kevin Rudd’s election
victory over John Howard’s Liberals in 2007 to the slightly less
enthusiastic election of 2010, Alan Moir is the perfect guide to
contemporary politics and the (not very) epic journey from an era of
conservative government to an era of, well, slightly less conservative
government.
Alan Moir was born and educated in New Zealand, and moved to Australia in the early 1970s. He was editorial cartoonist for The Bulletin and Brisbane’s Courier-Mail before becoming editorial cartoonist at The Sydney Morning Herald in 1984. Alan is a two-time winner of the Walkley Award for Excellence in
Journalism and a six-time winner of Australian Editorial Cartoonist of
the Year, and was awarded second prize in the United Nations Ranan Lurie
Political Cartoon Awards in 2004.
If You Can't Stand the Heat
Judy Horacek
Published by Scribe
November 2011
RRP: $29.95
'Judy Horacek is one of Australia's best
cartoonists and should be a worldwide
phenomenon. She brightens the day with wit
and intelligence.'
Lucy Sussex
(Sunday Age)
'It is impossible not to giggle at Judy Horacek's smart yet
dreamily inventive cartoons and illustrations, seen here in their
technicolour glory in this seventh collection of Judy's published
sketches. The Australian artist's observations on the absurdities of
modern life and witty takes on environmental and global issues bring
welcome levity to even the darkest scenarios. Read them and weep — with
laughter!'
Juliet Reiden
(Australian Women's Weekly)
'Every single cartoon here could be used as a
thought-provoking insight into life in the twenty-first century, or
taken as just a quick belly-laugh. Or a mixture of both, if you like.'
Megan Blandford
(Australian Women Online)
Judy Horacek’s beautiful and brilliantly funny observations are
modern icons perfectly distilling the absurdities, foibles and the
dilemmas of contemporary life. Ranging from the minutiae of daily living
to larger scale global and environmental issues, her cartoons celebrate
human creativity and resilience and are permeated with a concern for
justice and a desire for laughter.
If You Can’t Stand the Heat is a wonderful phantasmagoria of ancient fairy tales made new, of penguins, pirates and angels.
A scintillating new collection from one of Australia’s most loved cartoonists.