Best Australian Political Cartoons 2008
Edited by Russ Radcliffe
'There's no better way to review this election year than to savour our politicians being nailed by some of our best cartoonists. My favourite is Matt Golding's response to Bill Heffernan's attack on Julia Gillard for being childless … Jon Kudelka, on the APEC cops, deserves the final word: "If anybody laughs, the satirists have won."'
Fiona Capp (Age)'Radcliffe is Australia’s leading archivist of political cartoons ... and he gives us all a laugh. More importantly, he gives us a record of our political life in a manner accessible to very wide audience.'
Haydon Manning (Australian Review of Public Affairs )After more than a decade of John Howard and the divisive politics that defined his era, how will Australia’s political cartoonists adjust to Kevin Rudd’s kinder, gentler government? One thing is sure, Labor’s honeymoon will be short. Following a brief team-building Queensland holiday with the Rudds, Australia’s funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists are already back on the job, pencils sharpened and eager to draw fresh blood.
The sixth edition of this best-selling series features the work of editorial cartoonists from all around Australia including: Alston, Brown, Davidson, Dyson, Katauskas, Knight, Kudelka, Leahy, Leak, Moir, Nicholson, O’Farrell, Petty, Pope, Rowe, Spooner, Tandberg, Weldon, and many more. Not just a collection, more a subversive first draft of history, Best Australian Political Cartoons 2008 is the essential guide to the new Labor era.
Russ Radcliffe
RUSS RADCLIFFE has worked as a bookseller, literary-events organiser, editor, and publisher. He can’t draw to save his life but is quite happy to be a parasite on the genius of others. He has edited the annual Best Australian Political Cartoons (Scribe), and Man of Steel: a cartoon history of the Howard years (Scribe, 2007). Russ is editor and publisher of Bruce Petty’s Parallel Worlds (High Horse, 2008).
Website: http://www.highhorse.com.au
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Extent: 192pp
Size: 200mm x 180mm
ISBN (13): 9781921372322
RRP: $27.95
Pub date: November 2008
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