Malcolm Evans (cartoonist)

Malcolm Paul Evans (born 1945) is a New Zealand cartoonist residing in Auckland.

Up till September 2014, when they decided they "needed a change" Evans' cartoons appeared daily in three major New Zealand newspapers, The Manawatu Standard, The Timaru Herald and The Christchurch Press. But Evans still produces political cartoons for the Northland Age and still produces his Edna character, the ubiquitous farmer's wife, which has been running fortnightly, since 1976, in New Zealand's largest farming newspaper Rural News. Evans also produces cartoons fortnightly for New Zealand Dairy News and Dairy News Australia, personal cartoon caricature commissions, and also sculpts and paints.

Having first worked for The New Zealand Herald in the 1970s, when he succeeded Sir Gordon Minhinnick, Evans was again its cartoonist for six years from 1997 till 2003 when those opposed to his anti-Zionist cartoons, which the Herald had judged to be "fair comment", put pressure on the paper and, following Evans' subsequent refusal to stop drawing cartoons critical of Israel, he was subsequently dismissed.[1][2] During his time at the New Zealand Herald he was twice judged New Zealand Cartoonist of the Year, a title he held at the time of his firing, along with that of President of the NZCIA - the New Zealand Cartoonists and Illustrators Association.

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  1. ↑ "Real History and the problems of caricaturing Israel". The Sydney Morning Herald. 15 August 2003. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  2. ↑ Cummings, Michael (November 2003). "Dumped cartoonist speaks out" (PDF). Te Waha Nui. Retrieved 3 January 2012.

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