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Cover art for this week’s Australian Spectator magazine depicts Captain Arthur Phillip: Australia’s first Governor and settler…

Here are the collected illustrations from my work on MAD Magazine in 2011…

On the stands this week: Double page bar scene illustration for Australian People magazine. Please click for a closer look! Detail below… Sketches A quick thumbnail rough lets me and the editor know what I have in mind: All is good, so I move ahead and draw a proper sketch.  I also have to keep in

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I’ve had the privilege of gracing quite a few covers of The Spectator Australia this year, and am pleased to showcase them here for you, in reverse order of publication. Many thanks to editor Tom Switzer for allowing me creative freedom, and also providing clear direction when needed. Please click each image to read a

In the UK, they love a Christmas Special, and The Spectator Australia continues the tradition with the annual Double Christmas Issue – which runs for two weeks over the festive season, and hits the stands tomorrow. Isn’t this a lovely scene?  Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott enjoy a nice Christmas Turkey at the end of

This week’s Spectator cover was very fun to draw: Independent and Australian Party leader Bob Katter riding into town. Here’s an excerpt of the article by Dean Bertram: But beyond politics, Katter evokes a certain emotional response. As Willie Nelson crooned: “My heroes have always been cowboys, and they still are it seems”. Bob’s big

Here’s a spot illustration for US MAD #512 featuring caricatures of TV posties John Ratzenberger (Cheers) and Wayne Knight (Seinfeld) for a piece titled Other Ways the US Postal Service is Cutting Back. Brush and ink on paper, digital colour.  Please click for a closer look.

This week’s cover art for the Spectator Australia was a quick turnaround for me. I chose to take the brief of Australia being left out in the cold at the UN Climate Change Conference quite literally…

This week I was commissioned by The Spectator Australia to illustrate Neil Brown’s piece featuring a paragraph on the “perpetually earnest” Bill Shorten and his leadership ambitions around the Qantas fiasco…