Things Are Different Down Under

Here's an article flipped 180 degrees from how such articles usually go: Sally Jackson of The Australian note the rigorous delight with which Australian cartoonist have greeted Prime Minister Julia Gillard, basically because they feel she's fun to draw and that her nose and attention to variations in hairstyle give them something to latch onto. This is far cry from the usual US/Canada article, almost an election tradition, where cartoonists whine and grouse about the new person being almost impossible to draw in a humorous way. The fact that Gillard doesn't seem to me any more or less cartoonish than the standard North American politician makes me wonder if this isn't just something about the way Australia's cartoonists are oriented.
 
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