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Monsters Who Lived Under My Bed 1976 – 1983 (Kids’ Night In 2)
When I Was a Kid (Kids’ Night In 3)
Andrew Weldon is a cartoonist based in Melbourne, Australia.
He was always doodling cartoons as a child and used to copy characters from Disney books. His favourite subject at school was ’Lunchtime’
His cartoons have appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, The Big Issue, Tango, The New Yorker, The Spectator, Private Eye, and on greeting cards.
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 sorry little man, I thought you were a hand puppet and If you weren’t a hedgehog… If I weren’t a haemophilliac, were published by Allen & Unwin. He has also illustrated in the “Don’t Look Now-Series”.
Andrew studied Architecture at University and got involved with a sketch show, ‘Archi Revue’. He soon realised he liked making people laugh more than designing buildings! He wrote for and acted in the shows. Some of the jokes worked better visually so he started drawing cartoons, some of which were published in the university newspaper. The confidence he gained from this encouraged him to send his work out to other magazines and newspapers and he became widely published.
He says: ‘Sometimes being a political cartoonist you have to create cartoons that comment on very serious political issues…. The challenge for those times is to find something wortyhwhile to say…sometimes it can just raise ideas, or even just to say isn’t what’s happening awful?’
He is unable to work without his lucky pencil and listening to loud music.
Monsters Who Lived Under My Bed 1976 – 1983 (Kids’ Night In 2)
When I Was a Kid (Kids’ Night In 3)
Andrew Weldon is a cartoonist based in Melbourne, Australia.
He was always doodling cartoons as a child and used to copy characters from Disney books. His favourite subject at school was ’Lunchtime’
His cartoons have appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, The Big Issue, Tango, The New Yorker, The Spectator, Private Eye, and on greeting cards.
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 sorry little man, I thought you were a hand puppet and If you weren’t a hedgehog… If I weren’t a haemophilliac, were published by Allen & Unwin. He has also illustrated in the “Don’t Look Now-Series”.
Andrew studied Architecture at University and got involved with a sketch show, ‘Archi Revue’. He soon realised he liked making people laugh more than designing buildings! He wrote for and acted in the shows. Some of the jokes worked better visually so he started drawing cartoons, some of which were published in the university newspaper. The confidence he gained from this encouraged him to send his work out to other magazines and newspapers and he became widely published.
He says: ‘Sometimes being a political cartoonist you have to create cartoons that comment on very serious political issues…. The challenge for those times is to find something wortyhwhile to say…sometimes it can just raise ideas, or even just to say isn’t what’s happening awful?’
He is unable to work without his lucky pencil and listening to loud music.
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