Jon Kudelka

{{Short description|Australian cartoonist}}

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Jon Kudelka (born 1972{{cite book |last1=Foyle |first1=Lindsay |title=Comic Commentators: Contemporary Political Cartooning in Australia |date=2008 |publisher=Network Books |page=232 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ip9JUpeE6jEC&pg=PA232 |access-date=30 October 2022 |chapter=Not Always Funny: A Short History of the Cartoonists Who Have Worked on The Australian|isbn=9781920845483 }}) is an Australian editorial cartoonist.{{cite book |last1=Leon |first1=Lucien |title=Satire and Politics: The Interplay of Heritage and Practice |date=2017 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |access-date=29 October 2022 |chapter=The Evolution of Political Cartooning in the New Media Age: Cases from Australia, the USA and the UK|page=164|isbn=9783319567747 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OUI_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA164}} His work has regularly appeared in The Australian, The Mercury and The Saturday Paper.{{cite news |last1=Blackiston |first1=Hannah |title=Walkley Award-winning cartoonist Jon Kudelka joins The Saturday Paper |url=https://mumbrella.com.au/walkley-award-winning-cartoonist-jon-kudelka-joins-the-saturday-paper-600274 |access-date=29 October 2022 |work=Mumbrella |date=30 September 2019}}

Kudelka was born in Burnie, Tasmania and obtained a Bachelor of Science from the University of Tasmania. In 2008, he won the Stanley Award for best editorial/political cartoonist,{{cite web |title=The Stanleys |url=https://cartoonists.org.au/stanleys |publisher=Australian Cartoonists' Association |access-date=30 October 2022}} as well as the Walkley Award for best cartoon.{{cite web |title=Walkley Winners Archive |url=https://www.walkleys.com/awards/walkley-winners-archive/ |publisher=Walkley Foundation |access-date=30 October 2022}} In 2018 he won a second Walkley for a cartoon about Uluru, while in 2019 he won the Vince O’Farrell Award for Outstanding Cartoon at the Kennedy Awards.{{cite web |title=2019 Kennedy Award Winners |url=https://kennedyawards.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Kennedy-Awards-PRINT-READY-FOR-SNAP-PERTH-15-724x1024.png |publisher=The Kennedy Awards |access-date=30 October 2022}}