Cathy Wilcox

Cathy Wilcox (born 1963) 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. Wilcox left The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in August 2026.

Awards 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 Walkley Award in Cartoon for 'Kevin Cleans Up' and a third in 2017 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.

Wilcox was named Cartoonist of the Year in 2009, 2016 and 2020 by the Museum of Australian Democracy.

Royal Commission cartoon In January 2026, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age published a Wilcox cartoon about the campaign for a Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. On 11 January, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age published an apology for the cartoon, which, it said, many of its readers found thought-provoking but many others, particularly Jews, found deeply hurtful and offensive.

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