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Paul Zanetti | |
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| Born | 8 September 1961 Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Political cartoonist |
Paul Zanetti (born 8 September 1961) is a political cartoonist based in Australia.
He was the youngest paid political cartoonist on a major metropolitan newspaper in Australia. While still at school, he regularly contributed to The Sun newspaper in Sydney, from the age of 16 years.[ citation needed ]
In 1980, he joined The Sun art department in Sydney where he continued to contribute cartoons. Eight months later he accepted the full-time cartooning position on the Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph (Australia's largest circulating newspaper). This position had been vacated by Bill Mitchell, who had moved to The Australian , taking Larry Pickering's position.[ citation needed ]
At the age of 23 he won a Walkley Award for cartooning.[ citation needed ]
In 1990, Zanetti moved to the United States to study syndication.[ citation needed ] On his return, he pioneered political cartoon syndication in Australia, appearing in newspapers throughout Australia and internationally.[ citation needed ] In 1993, he co-founded Australian Newspaper Features (ANF) Pty Ltd, Australia's first content syndicator of features and columns by household Australian names, Ray Martin (What Does Ray Say?)[ citation needed ], John Laws (Lawsie), Rene Rivkin (Taking Stock), Angry Anderson (Getting Angry), Paul 'Fatty' Vautin (Life With Fatty) and John-Michael Howson from Los Angeles (Hollywood Hotline).[ citation needed ]
In the US, Zanetti's cartoons are syndicated through Cagle Cartoons.[ citation needed ]
