Independence Educational Publishers are “Cambridge-based educational publishers of books and online resources that tackle important social issues. Our products present accessible information on topics such as drugs, relationship abuse, racial discrimination, poverty, and many more.” These are some of the cartoon illustrations from their latest set of books on Alcohol Addiction, National Health, Housing, Disability, Pregnancy and Teen Self-care.
‘A wave of community support reaching State Parliament in the form of signatures on the AEU Student Support Funding petition’. More that 10,000 people signed the petition. The cover illustration for the Australian Education Union (AEU), South Australian branch Journal.
A panorama representing the mangroves north of Port Adelaide for Green Adelaide as an educational resource. The creatures, plants and other objects are separate illustrations that can be placed on the background.
The panorama above shows the scene at high tide. The low tide scene is below…
Sacred Heart College, Brighton South Australia held its Marist ‘Beating as One Heart’ Liturgy celebration on Friday 24th September. The event was captured in cartoon style on a long panel. A copy was made after the event for the college’s other campus. The school colour is blue. A video of the celebration activities including the artwork can be seen here.
The ‘Where are you from?’ cartoon has been used in the South Korean text book Citizens and Social Participation, published by Mabook Publishing Company, Incheon, South Korea. Here is the text book with its companion book Citizens and Social Justice. Well illustrated, great looking books.
Independence Educational Publishers UK publish Issues, a series of resource books, now containing over 70 titles, covering a variety of subjects, used primarily by librarians and teachers to help their students gain a better understanding of the world around them and the issues which affect their lives. Read more here.
Just published Issues:
Each book has cartoon illustrations by Angelo Madrid and Simon Kneebone. Here are some of my cartoons from the latest books:
Kunmanara is a book published by the Department for Education, Government of South Australia, for use in schools in the APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara) Lands in the remote north west of South Australia. There are Pitjantjatjara and Yakunytjatjara language versions.
Teaching by Numbers, an illustration for the article in the latest Australian Education Union Journal (South Australia branch). ‘An increasing number of politicians and education consultancy businesses believe that knowledge can be broken down into discrete parts, standardised for easy consumption, routinised to ensure consistency and subsequently measured through predefined forms of assessment.’
Sue Tomat, owner at GumLeaf Green, has posted the next instalment of The Reality-Check Alphabet: The dot point dilemma.
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 
Healthy disruption …
Cartoon commentary at the Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia, CAPHIA, Teaching and Learning Forum: Public Health education in a Time of Disruption, 15 & 16 July.
Some of the day one cartoons…
Some of the second day’s cartoons …