Cathy Wilcox

{{Short description|Australian cartoonist}}

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| birth_name = Catherine Morville Wilcox

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1963}}

| birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales

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| nationality = Australian

| field = Cartoons

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| works = A Proper Little Lady

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| awards = Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism – Cartooning, 2007, 2013, 2017/Stanley Award for Best Editorial/Political Cartoonist and Best Single Gag Artist in 1994 and for Best Single Gag Artist in 1997, 2014, 2015 / Australian Book Council of Australia Award. Cartoonist of the Year in 2009, 2016, 2020 / Museum of Australian Democracy.

| website = {{url|https://www.cathywilcox.com.au/}}

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{{external media | width = 210px | float = right | headerimage= | video1 = [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=5dZuzW3jAEA&ab_channel=MuseumofAustralianDemocracyatOldParliamentHouse Cathy Wilcox: MoAD's 2020 Political Cartoonist of the Yea], 2020. |video2= [https://tedxsydney.com/talk/lazy-and-outraged-dont-take-it-personally-cathy-wilcox/ Lazy and Outraged? Don’t Take It Personally], Cathy Wilcox, TEDxSydney, 2016 |video3= [https://tedxsydney.com/film/meet-the-speakers-cathy-wilcox-tedxsydney-2016/ Meet The Speakers: Cathy Wilcox], TEDxSydney, 25 May 2016 }}

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. 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/picture-perfect-herald-the-big-winner-20071130-gdrprl.html|title=Picture perfect Herald the big winner|date=2007-11-30|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|access-date=2020-04-16}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.walkleys.com/awards/walkley-winners-archive/|title=Walkey Winners Archives|website=walkleys.com|url-status=live|access-date=2020-04-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429183626/http://walkleys.com/awards/walkley-winners-archive/ |archive-date=29 April 2014 }}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.daao.org.au/bio/cathy-wilcox/biography/|title=Cathy Wilcox Biography|last=Kerr|first=Joan|date=2007|website=Design and Art Australia Online}} Since then, she has received a Stanley Award for Single Gag Cartoonist in 1997, 2014 and 2015 and was a finalist in 2018.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cartoonists.org.au/stanleys|title=The Stanleys|website=Australian Cartoonist Association|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226224842/https://cartoonists.org.au/stanleys/ |archive-date=26 February 2015 }}

Wilcox was named Cartoonist of the Year in 2009, 2016 and 2020 by the Museum of Australian Democracy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/smh-and-age-s-wilcox-wins-political-cartoonist-of-the-year-for-third-time-20201119-p56g08.html|title=Wilcox wins political cartoonist of the year for third time |author-first= Rachel |author-last=Clun |website=Sydney Morning Herald|date=20 November 2020 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120004502/https://www.smh.com.au/national/smh-and-age-s-wilcox-wins-political-cartoonist-of-the-year-for-third-time-20201119-p56g08.html |archive-date=20 November 2020 }}