Anton Emdin
Encyclopedia
Anton Emdin is a freelance illustrator
and cartoonist
from Sydney
, Australia
.
s, including the Australian editions of Rolling Stone
, FHM
, Ralph, People
, Penthouse
, and MAD
(both Australian and US editions).
Amongst a bunch of educationals for schools, Anton has illustrated various books; standouts being the Graphic Classics series featuring Mark Twain
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, Ambrose Bierce
and Edgar Allan Poe
.
For commercial and advertising
illustration work Anton is represented by The Drawing Book Illustration Agency and has worked with many large advertising agencies such as JWT
, Ogilvy
, and Saatchi & Saatchi
for clients including Macquarie Bank, Luxbet, and Kelloggs, as well as many smaller companies and individuals.
and collaborated with Ross Tesoriero in his first mini-comic If Pain Persists. Shortly after, he published his own comic Cruel World, and was one of the first in the Australia underground scene to produce full colour covers and professionally printed pages. Unfortunately the high production value did not reflect the low-brow content! Cruel World ran to issue 8.
Throughout his life, Anton has continued to draw in the art and underground scene, contributing to books and comic anthologies such as Sick Puppy, Phatsville, Blackguard' ', Pure Evil, and most recently, Blood and Thunder.
with Corkey the pug, and Johnny the cat.
Vault and Blog: Anton Emdin's Illustration and Cartooning Blog
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
and cartoonist
Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
from Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
Career
Working as a freelance illustrator and cartoonist full time since 1995, Anton has drawn for numerous magazineMagazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
s, including the Australian editions of Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
, FHM
FHM
FHM, originally published as For Him Magazine, is an international monthly men's lifestyle magazine.- History :The magazine began publication in 1985 in the United Kingdom under the name For Him and changed its title to FHM in 1994 when Emap Consumer Media bought the magazine, although the full For...
, Ralph, People
People (Australian magazine)
People is a weekly Australian lad's mag published by ACP Publishing, a division of PBL Media. It has been published since the 1950s. It is not to be confused with the gossip magazine known by that name in the United States; that magazine is published under the name Who in Australia.People focuses...
, Penthouse
Penthouse (magazine)
Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. Penthouse is owned by FriendFinder Network. formerly known as General Media, Inc. whose parent company was Penthouse International...
, and MAD
Mad (magazine)
Mad is an American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952. Launched as a comic book before it became a magazine, it was widely imitated and influential, impacting not only satirical media but the entire cultural landscape of the 20th century.The last...
(both Australian and US editions).
Amongst a bunch of educationals for schools, Anton has illustrated various books; standouts being the Graphic Classics series featuring Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
, Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde....
, Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist...
and Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
.
For commercial and advertising
Advertising
Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...
illustration work Anton is represented by The Drawing Book Illustration Agency and has worked with many large advertising agencies such as JWT
JWT
JWT is one of the largest advertising agencies in the United States and the fourth-largest in the world. It is one of the key companies of Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP Group and is headquartered in New York. The global agency is led by Worldwide Chairman and Global CEO Bob Jeffrey who took over the...
, Ogilvy
Ogilvy & Mather
Ogilvy & Mather is an international advertising, marketing and public relations agency based in Manhattan and owned by the WPP Group. The company operates 497 offices in 125 countries with approximately 16,000 employees.-History:...
, and Saatchi & Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency network with 140 offices in 80 countries and over 6,500 staff. It was founded in London in 1970 but now headquartered in New York. The parent company of the agency group was known as Saatchi & Saatchi PLC from 1976 to 1994, was listed on the London...
for clients including Macquarie Bank, Luxbet, and Kelloggs, as well as many smaller companies and individuals.
Awards
- Australian Cartoonists' Association's (ACA) Stanley AwardStanley AwardNamed after Stan Cross, the Stanley Awards, also known as The Stanleys are issued annually by the Australian Cartoonists' Association and recognise the best of Australian cartoonists and cartooning....
for Illustrator, 2010 - Desktop CREATE:2010 Awards for Illustration / Typography Category (shortlisted)
- Australian Cartoonists' Association's (ACA) Stanley AwardStanley AwardNamed after Stan Cross, the Stanley Awards, also known as The Stanleys are issued annually by the Australian Cartoonists' Association and recognise the best of Australian cartoonists and cartooning....
for Illustrator, 2009 - National Cartoonists SocietyNational Cartoonists SocietyThe National Cartoonists Society is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States. It presents the National Cartoonists Society Awards. The Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the troops...
's (NCS) Reuben Division Award for Magazine Feature / Magazine Illustration, 2009 (nominated) - Australian Cartoonists' Association's (ACA) Stanley AwardStanley AwardNamed after Stan Cross, the Stanley Awards, also known as The Stanleys are issued annually by the Australian Cartoonists' Association and recognise the best of Australian cartoonists and cartooning....
for Illustrator, 2008 (nominated)
Mini Comix
In the early 1990s Anton started drawing underground comixUnderground comix
Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence...
and collaborated with Ross Tesoriero in his first mini-comic If Pain Persists. Shortly after, he published his own comic Cruel World, and was one of the first in the Australia underground scene to produce full colour covers and professionally printed pages. Unfortunately the high production value did not reflect the low-brow content! Cruel World ran to issue 8.
Throughout his life, Anton has continued to draw in the art and underground scene, contributing to books and comic anthologies such as Sick Puppy, Phatsville, Blackguard' ', Pure Evil, and most recently, Blood and Thunder.
Personal life
Anton Emdin and Aisling (Ash) Kinchin were married in 2004 and have two children; Miles Emdin (b. 20 May 2006) and April Emdin (b. 25 April 2009). They live happily in Sydney's Inner WestInner West (Sydney)
The Inner West is a general term which is used to describe the metropolitan area directly to the west of the Sydney central business district, New South Wales, Australia...
with Corkey the pug, and Johnny the cat.
External links
Official Portfolio: Illustrations and Cartoons by Anton EmdinVault and Blog: Anton Emdin's Illustration and Cartooning Blog