Cartoons, comics and illustrations
A small sample of cartoons, comics and illustrations for The Pharmaceutical Journal, The Conversation, Crikey and others from over the years.
Animated cover available here.
Full comic here.
Illustration for ASPI’s War In 2025 conference.
Lead image for an opinion article on the under-treatment of blood cancers in the UK for The Pharmaceutical Journal.
Featured in the Museum of Australian Democracy’s best of 2023 political cartoons exhibition Behind The Lines.
Full article here.
Animated cover online here.
Full article here.
Full article available here.
Full article here.
…for ASPI’s War In 2025 conference.
Illustration for an article on the media and social response to – and mishandling of – the Christchurch massacre live stream.
As featured on the ABC’s Talking Pictures.
Illustration for an article on the challenges for the incoming incumbent Morrison government.
From the day following Michelle Guthrie’s unceremonious turfing from the ABC.
From the day that Scott Morrison became PM (within the next few hours), supporting an article about how the flow of votes actually pushed Peter Dutton out of the running.
From an article by Judith Brett exploring the shrinking Liberal Party base and who it might actually be at this point.
For an article explaining the US midterms, what they could mean for the Democrats and why they’re simultaneously not and definitely also are a referendum on Trump’s presidency.
From an article about how we expert our leaders to play at being regular Joes, while also making decisions for the nation, by Frank Bongiorno.
From an article by Judith Brett proposing that a lack of climate policy is the Liberal Party’s biggest economic problem.
Comic explainer at The Conversation on lone-actor terrorism with RUSI terror expert Raffaello Pantucci.
Comic explainer for The Conversation on Islamic finance with Mamiza Haq.
A promotional video for the Conversation to explain how we do FactChecks and what makes our process unique.
Originally published on an article at the Conversation.
...with cartoonist Luo Jie, who draws for the state-owned China Daily. Full comic up at Junkee.
Created for cartoonist Matt Furie's Save Pepe campaign.
From a long-form comic explainer on how memory works, a collaboration with the Florey Institute's Dr Jee Hyun Kim. Co-published with the ABC.
Originally published at Crikey on Wednesday 4 June 2014, on the Malcolm Turnbull's continued rise in popularity as alternative Liberal leader in the polls.
Featured in the "Behind the Lines - the best political cartoons of 2014" exhibition at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House in Canberra.
Originally published at the Conversation: Buggered if I know where I am: the stories behind Australia’s weird and wonderful place names.
Originally published at Crikey on Thursday 12 June 2014, tying together Australian asylum seeker policy and anti-homeless spikes as seen in UK apartment block eaves.
Originally published at Crikey on Wednesday 28 May 2014. On the findings of the Cornall Report into riots at Manus Island, and Immigration Scott Morrison's response to questioning on the topic.
Originally published at Crikey on Wednesday 19 June 2014, following PM Tony Abbott's offer of support to the US in any action against ISIL/ISIS forces in the north of Iraq.
Originally published on Crikey, following the news that the High Court would be granting an injunction preventing the refoulement of 153 asylum seekers to Sri Lanka by the Australian Government - on the same day as the final match in the Rugby State of Origin series.
Published at Crikey on Wednesday 14 May following the announcement of the 2014 Budget.
Originally published on Wednesday 24 April 2014. Number one post on reddit Australia for the week it was published.
Posted at This Is Australia. Today. after Kevin Rudd ousted Julia Gillard as Labor PM.
Originally published at Crikey on Wednesday 11 April 2014.
Originally posted on social media and at This is Australia. Today., then used for a campaign by the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre on Facebook and shared over 300 times.
Originally published at Crikey on Wednesday 9 April 2014, on changes to employment arrangements at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on the criticism of government policy.
Originally published at Crikey on Wednesday 22 May 2014, on the suggestion that states should pull themselves up by their bootstraps to find funding for various services previously supported by the Federal government.
Feature at the University of Melbourne's G20 Watch.
