Geoff Pryor b. 1944

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Contemporary Canberra newspaper cartoonist. Pryor has worked as the political cartoonist on the Canberra Times since 1978, when he succeeded Larry Pickering in the role. He has been the recipient of both a Walkley and a Stanley Award.

Citations

  • (1999), 'Report Card’, Weekend Australian : Media, 04-01, p 6, 1999-04-01/1999-04-07.

  • Adams, Phillip (1986), 'Arrest that Cartoonist!’, Ringwood, Vic : Penguin.

  • Kerr, Joan (1999), 'Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White’, Sydney, NSW : National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery.

  • Pryor, Geoff (c.1980), 'Pryor to 1980’, The Canberra Times.

  • Pryor, Geoff (1994), 'Top Pryority’, Melbourne, Vic : Longman.

  • Turner, Ann, '[Oral History interviews]’, Canberra, ACT, National Library of Australia.

  • Turner, Ann (2000), 'In their image : contemporary Australian cartoonists’, Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia.

  • (2002), 'Playing Politics : The Cartoons of Pickering and Pryor’, Canberra, ACT : Old Parliament House.

  • Hansen, Guy (2005), '[Cartoons 2004] : Behind the lines : The year’s best cartoons’, Canberra, ACT : National Museum of Australia.

  • Radcliffe, Russ (ed.) (2003), 'Best Australian political cartoons 2003’, Melbourne, Vic : Scribe.

  • Radcliffe, Russ (ed.) (2004), 'Best Australian political cartoons 2004’, Melbourne, Vic : Scribe.

  • Radcliffe, Russ (ed.) (2005), 'Best Australian political cartoons 2005’, Melbourne, Vic : Scribe.

See also

  • 'Self-portrait on back cover of Pryor to 1980 and in Pickering and Pryor 2002.'.
  • 'A self-portrait, 'Returning to Work', shows Pryor strapped to his drawing board with his editor cranking a machine to make him draw, n.d. [early 1990s?], original ML Px D586/1.'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists