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First Dog on the Moon is the pseudonym of Andrew Marlton, an award- winning cartoonist from Canberra. Australia
He worked at Radio 2XX in Canberra in the early 1980s and was an art school dropout. Before focusing on cartooning, he held ambitions to be an actor and a painter.
He has described his own politics as “anarcho-marsupialist” and has expressed his opinion that “patriarchy (and capitalism) still need to be dismantled… I now see my role as the guy who is going to draw the cartoons about the people who are going to do it.”
First Dog on the Moon’s popularity led to the production of merchandise based on his characters. Products include soft toys, shirts, tea towels, socks, playing cards, magnets, badges and calendars. His tea-towels were discussed by the Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, on a TV chat show.
He has worked as a regular political cartoonist for Crikey (from 2007) and Guardian Australia (from 2014). He runs a blog called First Blog on the Moon, illustrates books and gives occasional public performances.
Characters featured in Crikey cartoons included: the ABC Interpretive Dance Bandicoot, Brenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin, Ken the Hen (Gender Ambiguity Chicken), Warren the Water Buffalo, Prime Ministers Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott. The Prime Ministers were depicted as a fox, a balloon and a man wearing a bucket on his head respectively
In 2013, he toured his first live comedy show Cartoobs and other typos with your host First Dog on the Moon to several Australian cities. In 2016, he presented his second live comedy show at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in South Australia. Entitled “An Evening with First Dog on the Moon”, the show involved him talking through a Powerpoint presentation then answering questions about his work and Australian politics fielded by audience members
In 2015, a 240-page anthology of First Dog on the Moon cartoons entitled A Treasury of Cartoons by First Dog on the Moon was published by HarperCollins. It contained works from 2009 to 2015.
His most recent book The Carbon-Neutral Adventures of the Indefatigable Enviroteens was published in 2020
First Dog on the Moon is the pseudonym of Andrew Marlton, an award- winning cartoonist from Canberra. Australia
He worked at Radio 2XX in Canberra in the early 1980s and was an art school dropout. Before focusing on cartooning, he held ambitions to be an actor and a painter.
He has described his own politics as “anarcho-marsupialist” and has expressed his opinion that “patriarchy (and capitalism) still need to be dismantled… I now see my role as the guy who is going to draw the cartoons about the people who are going to do it.”
First Dog on the Moon’s popularity led to the production of merchandise based on his characters. Products include soft toys, shirts, tea towels, socks, playing cards, magnets, badges and calendars. His tea-towels were discussed by the Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, on a TV chat show.
He has worked as a regular political cartoonist for Crikey (from 2007) and Guardian Australia (from 2014). He runs a blog called First Blog on the Moon, illustrates books and gives occasional public performances.
Characters featured in Crikey cartoons included: the ABC Interpretive Dance Bandicoot, Brenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin, Ken the Hen (Gender Ambiguity Chicken), Warren the Water Buffalo, Prime Ministers Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott. The Prime Ministers were depicted as a fox, a balloon and a man wearing a bucket on his head respectively
In 2013, he toured his first live comedy show Cartoobs and other typos with your host First Dog on the Moon to several Australian cities. In 2016, he presented his second live comedy show at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in South Australia. Entitled “An Evening with First Dog on the Moon”, the show involved him talking through a Powerpoint presentation then answering questions about his work and Australian politics fielded by audience members
In 2015, a 240-page anthology of First Dog on the Moon cartoons entitled A Treasury of Cartoons by First Dog on the Moon was published by HarperCollins. It contained works from 2009 to 2015.
His most recent book The Carbon-Neutral Adventures of the Indefatigable Enviroteens was published in 2020
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