Description
John Spooner, cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator, printmaker (etchings and drypoints), painter and lawyer, was born in Melbourne on 20 November 1946. While studying law at Monash University (Bachelor of Jurisprudence 1970, Bachelor of Laws 1972), he contributed cartoons to the student magazine Lot’s Wife . For four years he worked as a solicitor specialising in common law litigation, while contributing cartoons to the Age (from 1974), then to the Sun-Herald , Sunday Press and National Times , London Times and Daily Mail .
