cartoonist and caricaturist, has always worked on newspapers. He began his career as a cadet with Southdown Press in Melbourne, then moved to the Australian as a cartoonist in 1972. After a stint on the Daily Mail (London), he worked for the Sydney Morning Herald and other Fairfax publications, e.g. caricature of Neville Wran, National Times 1978 (ill. King, 236). He joined the Bulletin in 1979, but later returned to Fairfax, currently (2001) being editorial cartoonist for the Australian Financial Review. Since the 1990s he has also been regularly illustrating Alan Ramsay’s column in the Sydney Morning Herald on Saturdays.
Ward O’Neill was one of the illustrators of Alexander Buzo’s Tautology: I don’t want to sound incredulous but I can’t believe it (Penguin, Victoria, 1981), with David Bromley, Patrick Cook, Jenny Coopes, Bill Farr and Randy Glusac. He won Walkley Awards for best illustrations in 1982 and 1984. He drew a cartoon for the 1991 'Quit’ campaign (original Mitchell Library PxD 672/32). His cartoons, Ashes Tour published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 13 June 1997 and Senator Colston published in the Australian Financial Review on 8 April 1997, were exhibited in Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Humour (Canberra: National Museum of Australia/ Old Parliament House exhibition, 1997), cats 3, 64. He also had two cartoons – 'Watch out Kerryn’ and 'Old diggers’ (acc. to National Museum of Australia website) – in Bringing the House Down 2001 (and other years).
- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
