Alan Moir

Alan Moir (born 1945) is an Australian caricaturist and cartoonist who was born in Hāwera, New Zealand. He was runner up in the United Nations Correspondents Association Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award in 2004.

Inducted into "The Australian Cartoonists' Hall of Fame" 2018.

In 2019 a cartoon on global warming was published in "The Oxford Illustrated History of the World"

His work is held in several collections including the National Library of Australia, the National Museum of Australia, the National Library of New Zealand, the State Library of New South Wales, the State Library of Queensland, the State Library of Victoria, and the Private Collection of Kofi Annan (the former Secretary- General of the UN).

In 2006 during the aftermath of the Danish Prophet cartoon controversy, he was invited to the Australian Senate to give a lecture on the history of political cartooning. He has published about a dozen books of cartoons over the years, and has been included in many others. He has given talks on the History of Western Political Cartooning in Sydney and Canberra, NZ (Auckland and Wellington), India (New Delhi, Trivandrum, Kochi)