painter and cartoonist, lives in Queensland and worked as a freelance regional cartoonist until the late 1990s. He drew sketch portraits of the three Johnnys, evidently after photographs, in Mabel Edmund’s Hello, Johnny!: Stories of my Aboriginal & South Sea Islander Family (Central Queensland University Press, 1996). Then he became editorial cartoonist for Australian Provincial Newspapers, which syndicates his cartoons daily through NSW and central Queensland in newspapers, including the Morning Bulletin , the Gladstone Observer , the Queensland Times , the Toowoomba Chronicle and the Northern Star .
In 1996 Emmerson won first prize for best 'Political Theme’ (Martin Bryant as a recreational shooter writing to Graeme Campbell) in the Rotary National and International Cartoon Awards at Coffs Harbour (ill. Inkspot 28, Spring 1997, 46). 10 Watts (on Pauline Hanson), published by Australian Provincial Newspapers on 22 April 1997, was exhibited in the National Museum of Australia’s Old Parliament House exhibition Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Humour (Canberra, 1997), cat. 47. In the 1999 Bringing the House Down exhibition he won the Best Political Satire award for his cartoon Keating , who is shown spruiking from the roof of a nursing home for geriatric ex-PMs ( Canberra Times 4 December 1999, 6). He regularly participates in the annual Bringing the House Down exhibitions, e.g. 'Global response’ in 2001. He has produced two anthologies of his cartoons, the former (at least) apparently from newspapers in Rockhampton.
Working on the New Zealand Herald , Auckland, NZ, in the mid 2000s.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
