Andrew Weldon

Andrew Weldon is an Australian cartoonist and illustrator based in Melbourne.

Career

Andrew Weldon is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia. ^[1] He has been a cartoonist for The Big Issue since 2006. ^[1] His cartoons have also appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald , The Age , The Australian , Tango, The New Yorker , The Spectator , and Private Eye . ^[1]

He has written and illustrated children's books including The Kid With The Amazing Head (Penguin 1998) and Clever Trevor's Stupendous Inventions (Penguin 1999). Collections of his gag cartoons, I'm So Sorry Little Man, I Thought You Were A Hand-Puppet and If You Weren't a Hedgehog...If I Weren't a Hemophiliac were published by Allen & Unwin. ^[2] He also illustrated the Don't Look Now series, written by Paul Jennings. ^[3]

Selected publications

Author and illustrator

• I'm So Sorry Little Man, I Thought You Were A Hand-Puppet. Allen & Unwin, 2002. ISBN   978-1865087825.
• Really-It's Not You, It's Me: Cartoons About Love, Sex and Relationships. Riverhead Trade, 2006. ISBN   978-1594481970.
• If You Weren't a Hedgehog...If I Weren't a Hemophiliac: 232 Cartoons. Allen & Unwin, 2009. ISBN   9780740790393.
• The Kid with the Amazing Head. Puffin, 2016. ISBN   9780143309161.
• Clever Trevor's Stupendous Inventions. Puffin, 2016. ISBN   978-0143309154.

Illustrator

• Jordan, Mary Ellen. Lazy Daisy, Cranky Frankie: Bedtime on the Farm. Albert Whitman & Company, 2013. ISBN   978-0807544006.
• Jennings, Paul. Don't Look Now Book 1: Falling For It and The Kangapoo Key Ring. Allen & Unwin, 2015. ISBN   978-1743311233.
• Jennings, Paul. Don't Look Now Book 2: A Magician Never Tells and Elephant Bones. Allen & Unwin, 2015. ISBN   978-1743311400.
• Jennings, Paul. Don't Look Now Book 3: Hair Cut and Just a Nibble. Allen & Unwin, 2015. ISBN   978-1743311417.
• Jennings, Paul. Don't Look Now Book 4: Hobby Farm and Seeing Red. Allen & Unwin, 2016. ISBN   978-1743311424.

• Cece, Adam. The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls. Text Publishing, 2018. ISBN   9781925603484. ^[4]
• Greenslade, Tosh. The Scomo Diaries: My First Eighteen Months at the Coalface. Penguin, 2020. ISBN   9781760899080. ^[5]

References

1. "Andrew Weldon". Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
2. "Andrew Weldon". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
3. Whelan, Susan (5 October 2013). "12 Curly Questions with illustrator Andrew Weldon". Kids' Book Review. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
4. Harper, Holly (April 2018). "The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls (Adam Cece, illus by Andrew Weldon, Text)". Books+Publishing. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
5. Mayer, Erich (30 January 2021). "Book Review: The Scomo Diaries by Tosh Greenslade and Andrew Weldon". Arts Hub. Retrieved 18 July 2025.

External links

• Andrew Weldon's personal website
• Interview with ABC Kids
• Tosh Greenslade and Andrew Weldon on The Scomo Diaries (Dark Matter Zine)