ANTON EMDIN

Austrialian illustrator and cartoonist Anton Emdin took home two awards, including the Gold Stanley for Cartoonist of the Year, from the Australian Cartoonists Association’s annual Stanley Awards celebration, November 11-12; this time, in Sydney. The other award was for Best Illustrator. Emdin is the only Aussie to receive award-recognition from the U.S.’s National Cartoonists Society: last May in Boston, he received the Reuben division award for magazine illustration.

We’ve posted below a sample of Emdin’s cartooning — the back cover of Mad No. 447. Next to it, Emdin’s likeness (sort of) on the cover of the ACA magazine Inkspot is by fellow ACA member Luke Watson, who accompanied Emdin and ACA prez Jason Chatfield to the Boston Reubens Weekend. A jarring note of their visit to Beantown was that Watson was refused a drink at the hotel bar because he couldn’t prove he was at least 21 years of age. He’s thirty. You can see more of Emdin’s work at his website, antonemdin.com.