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 2016 Rotary Cartoon of the Year and Winner of the Open Category by Chris "Roy" Taylor. Here's a little secret I have been keeping from a lot of people for a while now! On Wednesday 29th June this year, deep within the bowels of Brisbane City Hall a group of cartoon lovers met to decide the fate of a nation. Well, not exactly. It was decreed that The Rotary Cartoon Awards, held annually at the Bunker Cartoon Gallery, Coffs Harbour, for the past 28 years was to be judged in Brisbane in 2016. And it was a very great honour indeed for me to have been selected as one of the Judges. When you know that you are keeping the esteemed company of some of the Judges of the past, like the late Norman (Mr Squiggle) Hetherington and Jim Russell; Bob Carr, Natasha Stott-Despoja and Peter Beattie; Barry Croker and Jon English, and many, many others, it's better than receiving a knighthood! Joining me in this exalted task was Rotary Cartoon Awards' co-founder Tom Hamiton-Foster, Brisbane ABC radio announcer Steve Austin, and Sunday Mail cartoonist Brett Lethbridge (when his Editor was unable to attend). And overseeing the whole process, to ensure a fair vote was recorded and that no punch-ups or arguments took place, was Fran Stephenson, the Chair from the Bunker Cartoon Gallery.  Winner of the Best Cartoon with a Political Theme by John "Polly" Farmer. One of my personal favourites of the afternoon. To be really honest, it was a lot of fun. Much give and take was needed to obtain a unanimous consensus to judge the winners, but in the end I think we were all both fair and satisfied with our decisions. The Awards Night in Coffs Harbour was held last Saturday night (16th July), so the decisions we made in late June are now official and made public... Here are the complete list of Winners: Best Cartoon with a Political Theme WINNER: John "Polly" Farmer (see above) MERIT: Christopher Downes Best Cartoon with an Open Theme WINNER: Chris "Roy" Taylor MERIT: Tony Lopes Best Cartoon with a Sports Theme WINNER: Chris "Roy" Taylor MERIT: Lindsay Foyle Best Comic Strip WINNER: Shane Hosking MERIT: Alan Rose Best Caricature of a Well-Known Person WINNER: Xavier Ghazi MERIT: David Rowe Special 2016 Topic: Social Media WINNER: Gary Clark MERIT: Tony Lopes Rotary Cartoon of the Year: Chris "Roy" Taylor's Open Category Cartoon  Here's one we didn't have to argue too much about: Winner of Best Caricature of a Well-Known Person by Xavier Ghazi. |
Comicoz is Nat Karmichael's publishing imprint. Nat is committed to preserving a permanent collection of Australian comic and comic strips. He feels that there is a need to recognise comics' contribution to and depiction of Australian culture.
Nat Karmichael.
Since 2011, Nat has self-published over twelve comic-related books and was Publisher-Editor of Oi Oi Oi! -- the last series of nationally-distributed comic books of original stories to appear on Australian newsstands. He is a member of the Australian Cartoonists Association and edited the Association's journal Inkspot for 14 issues from late 2015. For numerous years he was the Lead Judge in the Ledger of Honour Awards for the Comic Arts Awards of Australia (formerly the Ledgers). These days Nat dreams of retiring from his occupation as a Clinical Nurse in the Psychiatric Emergency Centre in Queensland's largest public hospital, so that he can spend more time with his long-suffering wife and their six children and fourteen grandchildren. And perhaps publish some more comic-related books. 
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