cartoonist and caricaturist, aged 27 in 1998, claims he has been drawing all his life, although it was Michael Leunig’s cartoons that made him realise he could be a cartoonist too. A 1993 graduate from ANU, he wrote his History Honours thesis on the way cartoons have alienated different groups and the fluidity of cartoonists’ allegiences in terms of class and gender according to social context. Since 1991 he has been drawing fortnightly cartoons signed 'Pat’ for the ANU Reporter . He has made a living as a professional freelance cartoonist since 1993, when he won the Bill Mitchell Memorial Award for emerging cartoonists. In 1998 he won a Stanley Award for his single panel cartoons in the ANU Reporter sponsored by Chat’s Cafe at the School of Art (and used as ads). He has also done freelance work for the Canberra Times , Mac User magazine and Allen & Unwin publications. An article on him by Simonds is illustrated with two cartoons (plus a caricature of Frank Fenner on the cover): 'Fairy Paramedics’ yelling 'I believe in fairies’ over and over to revive a collapsed elf, and a Christmas stable with a horse saying 'Waiter! There’s a baby in my manger!’ He had 2 original cartoons ('Policy’ and 'Kyoto Account’) in Bringing the House Down 2001 (NMA website).
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- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
