Vince O'Farrell

Also known as Ofarrell
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Contemporary North Queensland and Wollongong newspaper cartoonist. He worked on the Cairns Post and Innisfail Advocate before he began drawing for the Illawarra Mercury in 1986.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
Vince O'Farrell
Also known as Ofarrell
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Active Period
  • c.1980- c.2006
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

cartoonist, worked as a cartoonist on the Cairns Post and Innisfail Advocate before he began drawing for the Illawarra Mercury in 1986. An emulator of Rigby , he took over as editorial cartoonist in late 1988 after Warren Brown moved to Sydney and was still there in 2005. In 1988 he said the two of them were working on a comic strip that he claimed would be 'bigger than Mickey Mouse’ (Foyle, 96). His cartoon War is hell was included in Bringing the House Down 2001 .

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Warren Brown
1965
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Rigby
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Lindsay Foyle
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Paul Rigby
1925
Artist (Painter), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
War is hell
Date
2001
Rotary Cartoons Award
None
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Bunker Gallery, Coffs Harbour, NSW
Cartoons 2004: Behind the lines: The year's best cartoons
2005
Exhibition ()
National Museum of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Bringing the House Down
2001
Exhibition ()
National Museum of Australia/ Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
Recognitions
Rotary cartoons award
Award
Six times winner
Citations:
  • Radcliffe, Russ (ed.), (2005), It's all happening : the Scribe book of Australian sports cartoons, (Place: Melbourne, Vic : Scribe)
  • Radcliffe, Russ (ed), (2005), Best Australian Political Cartoons 2005, (Place: Carlton North, Vic : Scribe)
  • Radcliffe, Russ (ed), (2004), Best Australian Political Cartoons 2004, (Place: Carlton North, Vic : Scribe)
  • Hansen, Guy, (2005), [Cartoons 2004] Behind the Lines : the year's best cartoons, (Place: Canberra, ACT: National Museum of Australia)
  • Foyle, Lindsay, (1988), 'Cartoonists of 1988: What, them worry?', (Place: Sydney, NSW : Bulletin, 11-15, pp 92-99)