David Rowe (cartoonist)

David Alexander Rowe is an Australian editorial cartoonist for the Australian Financial Review . ^[1]

He grew up in Canberra. ^[2] Rowe's father worked in the Department of Foreign Affairs and his mother worked in the Prime Minister's Department. ^[3] Rowe attended the Australian National University and initially studied economics, later studying art history and then political science, then studied graphic design at the TAFE in Reid, finally moving to Canberra Art School. ^[3] Rowe worked for The Canberra Times as a cartoonist in the 1980s. ^[4]

He regularly appears in the annual series Best Australian Political Cartoons. ^{[5] [6]} He is also represented in the National Museum of Australia's political cartoon inventory. ^[7]

Rowe was the "Behind the Lines" ^[8] Cartoonist of the Year in 2013 ^[9] and in 2017. ^{[10] [11] [12]} He won the Australian Cartoonists' Association's Gold Stanley eleven times, more than anybody else, including a run four consecutive years from 2017 to 2020 and again from 2023 to 2025. He won the Walkley Award for Cartoons four times: in 2009, 2011, 2016, 2020. ^{[13] [14]}

He also exhibited cartoons in Sydney in 2013. ^[15]

In 2015 he published a volume titled Mindless Colouring 101. ^[16]

Publications

• Brasch, Nicolas; Rowe, David (2008). So You Want to Be Prime Minister?. Black Dog Books. ISBN   978-1-74203-022-7. Second edition (2013) ISBN   978-1-922179-25-8
• Hunter, Amy; Rowe, David (2009). Great Aussie Inventions (1st ed.). Black Dog Books. ISBN   978-1-74203-076-0. Second edition (2013) ISBN   978-1-922179-24-1
• Rowe, David (2019). Politics Now. Laura Tingle (introduction). Scribe. ISBN   978-1-925849-43-1.

References

1. Ann Turner (1999), David Rowe interviewed by Ann Turner for the Comic artists and illustrators oral history project , retrieved 30 March 2025– via Trove
2. "This cartoonist packs a punch, with worldwide targets". Public Radio International. 29 October 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
3. "Three Financial Review cartoonists reveal how their subjects respond". Australian Financial Review . 20 August 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
4. Hired Assassins: Political Cartooning in Australia (video), Film Finance Corporation Australia, 2008, retrieved 13 January 2019– via Trove
5. Russ Radcliffe, ed. (2003–2025). Best Australian Political Cartoons. Scribe. Retrieved 13 January 2019– via Trove.
6. "A selection from Best Australian Political Cartoons 2006 edited by Russ Radcliffe". Arena Magazine. No. 86. Arena Printing and Publications. 1 December 2006. pp. 14 (1). ISSN   1039-1010.
7. Political cartoons (dataset), Museum Metadata Exchange, retrieved 13 January 2019– via Trove
8. Behind the Lines: the year's best political cartoons, Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, 2011, retrieved 13 January 2019
9. "Behind the Lines announce David Rowe as cartoonist of the year". The Sydney Morning Herald . 29 November 2013. Archived from the original on 15 April 2019.
10. Interview for 2017 Behind the Lines award on YouTube
11. "David Rowe 2017 Cartoonist of the Year". Australian Cartoonists' Association . Retrieved 11 March 2020.
12. "David Rowe has been named political cartoonist of the year by Behind the Lines". Australian Financial Review . 23 November 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
13. "David Rowe", digitalarchive.walkleys.com
14. "Walkley Winners Archive", The Walkley Foundation
15. "Cartoonist David Rowe at the Hughes Gallery". www.artnewsblog.com. Archived from the original on 9 November 2013.
16. Rowe, David (2015). Mindless Colouring 101. Melbourne University Press. ISBN   978-0-522-86940-8.

External links

• "David Rowe, cartoonist", Australian Financial Review