Geoff Pryor

{{Short description|Australian political cartoonist}}

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Geoffrey Pryor (born 1944 in Canberra{{cite web| author=National Museum of Australia| title=Animated conversation between Geoff Pryor and Michael McKernan| date=14 December 2008| publisher=National Museum of Australia| url=http://www.nma.gov.au/audio/transcripts/NMA_Pryor_20081213.html| accessdate=28 October 2014| archive-date=28 October 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028062302/http://www.nma.gov.au/audio/transcripts/NMA_Pryor_20081213.html| url-status=dead}}) is a retired Australian political cartoonist. He was the editorial cartoonist for The Canberra Times newspaper between 1978 and 2008. During this 30-year career, Pryor generally drew seven cartoons per week for the newspaper. Pryor's style was influenced by his predecessor at The Canberra Times, Larry Pickering.{{cite web| title=Larry Pickering profile| date=2002| publisher=Museum of Australian Democracy| url=http://moadoph.gov.au/exhibitions/pickering-and-pryor/larry-pickering/| accessdate=28 October 2014| url-status=dead| archiveurl=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20090523180813/http://moadoph.gov.au/exhibitions/pickering-and-pryor/larry-pickering/| archivedate=23 May 2009| df=dmy-all}} His graphic style is ornate, much more detailed and portrait-like than that of such contemporaries as Patrick Cook. He was cartoonist for The Saturday Paper until his "second retirement" in December 2018.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/contributor/geoff-pryor|title=Geoff Pryor|date=2014-02-28|work=The Saturday Paper|access-date=2017-05-15|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/cartoon/2018/12/22/15453972007315|title=Geoff Pryor cartoon, December 22 2018|last=Pryor|first=Geoff|date=2018-12-22|website=The Saturday Paper|access-date=2019-03-04}}