Cathy Wilcox
Cathy Wilcox is an Australian cartoonist and children's book illustrator, best known for her work as a cartoonist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers. She has also twice won the Australian Children's Book Council's 'Picture Book of the Year' award. In 2007 she won the Walkley Award in Cartooning for a cartoon about Sheikh Taj el-Din al Hilaly's infamous 'uncovered meat' remarks on Australian women. She went on to win a second Walkey Award in Cartoon for 'Kevin Cleans Up' and a third in 2013 for 'Low-cost Housing, London' which is a reference to the Grenfell Tower fire in North Kensington, London.
Wilcox won her first Australian Cartoonist Association Stanley Award for Best Editorial/Political Cartoonist and Best Single Gag Artist for her work in The Sydney Morning Herald in 1994. Since then, she has received a Stanley Award for Single Gag Cartoonist in 1997, 2014 and 2015 and was a finalist in 2018.
