Jon Kudelka is a Walkley Award-winning political cartoonist who’s been drawing for over 20 years. He drew thousands of cartoons for The Australian until 2019 and his work now regularly appears in The Hobart Mercury and The Saturday Paper.
Jon kindly joined me from Tasmania via Zoom to reflect on his journey to cartooning, the (minimal) influence that satire has on things, what he learnt from John Clarke, the deterioration and stasis of Australian politics, punching down, how compromised the ALP has become and how COVID-19 might wake people up to shitty free-market ideology.
Here’s some of his work that we touch on in our conversation:
If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron
Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you
Jon’s cartoons for The Saturday Paper
Jon’s cartoons for The Australian
ARTICLE: Data company that “helped locate Osama Bin Laden” recruits former Labor MP Mike Kelly
Cause of the Week: StreetSmart Australia (streetsmartaustralia.org)