Paul Hartigan b. 1939

Also known as Hartigan
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Contemporary Canberra cartoonist and public servant. Hartigan published 'The Public Service unzipped: Memoirs of a Mandarin' in 1995, a comic memoir illustrated with 60 of his own cartoons 'distilling the wisdom acquired from 25 years in the Public Service'.
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cartoonist and public servant, worked in the public service for 25 years, serving as Trade Commissioner in Hong Kong, Singapore and Athens and finally, as First Assistant Secretary in the Department of Employment, Education and Training in Canberra where he 'had responsibility for the Commonwealth Employment Service’. He published The Public Service unzipped: Memoirs of a Mandarin (Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 1995), a comic memoir illustrated with 60 of his own cartoons 'distilling the wisdom acquired from 25 years in the Public Service’. It was followed by a book of gay cartoons, who’s a pretty boy then? (Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 1996), showing his fondness for puns, e.g. gag about police arresting a man for having sex with a [coal] 'miner’. Signs his drawings 'Hartigan’. On 26 October 1997 he had a bitter cartoon in the Sunday Canberra Times and may appear there fairly regularly. Also did cartoons in the ANU Recorder sponsored by the campus hairdresser in the late 1990s [according to Joan Kerr].

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007

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