tOOns MaG

Malcolm Evans has drawn cartoons for as long as he can remember. Beginning as a professional cartoonist in the 1960s he first worked on the local paper in Tauranga, New Zealand. After travelling to Europe in the mid sixties, when he worked on the Express and Star in England, Evans returned to New Zealand before joining its biggest daily paper The New Zealand Herald. Eight years later he left to found a graphics studio, before returning to the New Zealand Herald again, until 2003. Evans supports the Editor’s right to decide what his paper will publish, but he believes that, in the tradition of Hogarth, Low and many others, a cartoonist should be free to say whatever is fair comment. And it was during this time that some of Evans’ most powerful cartoons were published by the Herald and he was twice voted Qantas New Zealand Cartoonist of the year. Today Evans supplies cartoons to New Zealand’s biggest farming newspapers and to New Zealand catholic. He also draws caricatures, paints in acrylic and sculpts in bronze. Evans has published twelve books of cartoons and has illustrated many books and essays.

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