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If You Weren't A Hedgehog... If I Weren't A Haemophiliac

If you weren't a hedgehog ... If I weren't a haemophiliac is the second collection of cartoons by one of one Australia's funniest, smartest and sharpest humorists. Andrew Weldon's cartoons have delighted, amused and sometimes appalled readers for the last fifteen years. His work has appeared in the Bulletin, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Magazine, The Big Issue, HQ, GQ, The Chaser, Punch (UK), Private Eye (UK), and on The Ink Group greeting cards. His clever, irreverent and often bizarre take on life should amuse young and old.

The Mark Knight Collection

Mark Knight has been capturing the politics, culture, soul and history of Australia and beyond in his political cartoons, illustrations and caricatures for two decades.

Now, for the first time, the multi-award-winning artist's funny, whimsical and witty work has been brought together in this full-colour, high-quality book.

Over the years, Knight's cartoons in the Herald Sun have illuminated issues and events ranging from last year's Federal Election campaign (his Walkley Award-winning Benefits of a Bedtime Story showed a fatherly federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham reading a story to a group of press gallery journalists depicted as children), and the hoopla and hype surrounding Shane Warne, to the Iraq war and the Asian tsunami.

As well as more than 200 cartoons, many of them annotated with Knight's retrospective comments, The Mark Knight Collection also includes examples of the cartoonist's political caricatures, excerpts from his illustrated travel diaries, and a selection of his paintings and sketches.

Petty's Parallel Worlds

'Bruce Petty is the closest we've ever come to producing our own Picasso, and I love him.' — Bill Leak, Australian

This beautifully produced full colour hardback features cartoons, illustrations and artwork — much of it previously unpublished — from one of our most original and loved political cartoonists. With incisive wit and anarchic style, Bruce Petty's art explores the human condition in all its strange comedy and tragedy. His pictures are filled not only with compassionate observations of individual foibles and folly, but also with the grand subjects of politics, history, art, religion, and philosophy. From small-time political chicanery to the secret world of global finance, from consumerism to climate change, from the inanity of the internet to the genius of Mozart, Petty's unruly pen traces the deep and unexpected interconnections between things to reveal the workings of the world.