cartoonist and illustrator, has illustrated many picture books, including Leonie Young’s I wish I’d sailed with Captain Cook (Willoughby: Weldon Kids, 1993) but especially his own: Careful with that ball, Eugene! (Sydney: Pan Books, 1989), Arnold Z Jones could really play the trumpet (Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993), The Royal Guest (Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993), Fifty Fairies You Ought to Know About (Pymble NSW: Angus & Robertson, 1995, copy National Library of Australia), The Tip at the end of the street (Pymble: A&R, 1996), Captain James Cook: The Adventures of the Endeavour (Warriewood NSW: Weldon Kids, 1996) and The Great Escape from City Zoo (Pymble NSW: Harper Collins, 1997). Says he aims to create books 'that resemble an album of stills from a feature movie’ (Australian Author 30/1, May 1997, 15).
By the late 1990s Riddle’s illustrations and articles (signed 'Tohby’) were appearing monthly in the NSW School Magazine. Did a weekly cartoon for the Sydney Morning Herald's 'Good Weekend’ magazine from 1999 with occasional work for the Herald and Good Weekend afterwards. Included in Bringing the House Down 2001 with 2 cartoons: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 and 'Donkey supporting terrorist’ (National Museum of Australia website).
- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
