cartoonist and caricaturist, was born in Rockhampton, Queensland, but has long worked in Melbourne. She was included in the SLV cartoon exhibition, The Heidelberg School Picnic , in 1985. Her joke cartoons – as much verbal as visual, says Richardson (p.114) – appeared weekly in the Weekend Australian during the 1990s, e.g. Magazine Cartoonist Looks Into the Future : (child to mother) “Mummy, what was a magazine? What was a cartoonist?” Australian Magazine 30-31 May 1998, 12. She remained a staff artist on the 'new look’ Australian Magazine of 11-12 August 2001, with At Neurotics Anonymous – a room full of empty chairs and a distant voice saying, 'Well, the hypochondriacs have gone home sick… the claustrophobics couldn’t bear to stay… and the obsessive-compulsives went to wash their hands!’ – but the editor announced that henceforth she would rotate with Victoria Roberts and Fiona Katauskas on a roughly 2 out of 3 week basis. She was not there for the following two weeks – the first time in years – and appears have disappeared altogether by the end of 2002 – evidently once her contract expired.

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Writers:

Kerr, Joan

Date written:

1996

Last updated:

2007