cartoonist and illustrator, has illustrated many picture books, including Leonie Young’s I wish I’d sailed with Captain Cook (Willoughby: Weldon Kids, 1993) but especially his own: Careful with that ball, Eugene! (Sydney: Pan Books, 1989), Arnold Z Jones could really play the trumpet (Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993), The Royal Guest (Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993), Fifty Fairies You Ought to Know About (Pymble NSW: Angus & Robertson, 1995, copy National Library of Australia), The Tip at the end of the street (Pymble: A&R, 1996), Captain James Cook: The Adventures of the Endeavour (Warriewood NSW: Weldon Kids, 1996) and The Great Escape from City Zoo (Pymble NSW: Harper Collins, 1997). Says he aims to create books 'that resemble an album of stills from a feature movie’ ( Australian Author 30/1, May 1997, 15).
By the late 1990s Riddle’s illustrations and articles (signed 'Tohby’) were appearing monthly in the NSW School Magazine . Did a weekly cartoon for the Sydney Morning Herald 's 'Good Weekend’ magazine from 1999 with occasional work for the Herald and Good Weekend afterwards. Included in Bringing the House Down 2001 with 2 cartoons: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 and 'Donkey supporting terrorist’ (National Museum of Australia website).
- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
