



Wonderful stories and wonderful people! A few of the cartoons inspired by stories at Weaving Stories together – the Sydney International Storytelling Conference , last weekend, 27-29th May.




There are three cartoonists involved in illustrating a number of articles in each UK published Issues series resource book for high school students – all Australians: Don Hatcher, Angelo Madrid and me. Above are three examples of mine from the latest set of books.
Independence Educational Publishers, Cambridge UK, produce 6 new resource books in their Issues series, three times a year. Aimed at 14- to 18-year-olds, each book gathers a wide range of information on an important social issue. Titles in the latest set,released this month, are Global Tourism, Gender Equality, Sustainability, Social Class, Discussing Crime and Our Changing Population.


These are a few of the illustrations made for David Cronin’s children’s book Pirate Pip’s Party.
The book will appear as an e-book sometime soon. Find out more about David Cronin and pirates here.



Illustrating John Kruger’s regular column in Your Kids Magazine. John has been writing about his son Stone since before Stone was born. This column describes a dad’s panic after forgetting to pack Stone’s lunch for the school excursion.
John Kruger has been recording his son Stone’s growing up, in the pages of SA Kids magazine, since before Stone was born. Stone’s birthday is in the middle of winter and John tells of the difficulties of rainy day birthdays.
Butterfly in the Cocoon is a collection of six stories of domestic violence, a project of the Vietnamese Community in Australia (South Australian chapter). ‘The stories identify issues around gender stereotyping and the misuse of power and control in these families… Each of these women is like a butterfly in a cocoon, they are unique, beautiful and precious’.