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Christopher Downes

@cdownes

Cartoonist for the Mercury Newspaper in Tasmania

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Wednesday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Back to work

03.03.2026 07:22 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Monday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Trump's repayment plan

01.03.2026 06:14 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Wednesday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Bovine Timing

24.02.2026 07:16 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Monday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Weather's getting a bit wooly

22.02.2026 07:07 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Wednesday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Pointing the finger

17.02.2026 06:47 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

It was probably the most beautiful funeral I’ve ever been to.

16.02.2026 11:42 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Monday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Yum'un

15.02.2026 07:10 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

It’s wonderful!

13.02.2026 08:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you! I wore mine yesterday and intentionally walked through a large group of cruise ship tourists down in Salamanca. Jon would’ve been proud.

11.02.2026 10:07 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Seeing the outpouring of love and gratitude since his death has made me realise just how extremely lucky I was to have him as a friend. He always had time for a chat no matter how behind on a deadline he was. (Which was quite often, now that I think about it!)

11.02.2026 09:43 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you very very much!

11.02.2026 03:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you, mr rowe

11.02.2026 02:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Probably my favourite Kudelka of all time.

10.02.2026 10:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wednesday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Jon Kudelka helped me get my first cartooning job at The Mercury. He also showed me how to be quick-witted and fearless. I was in a constant state of joke-envy over his cartoons. I'm gonna miss that feeling, but more than that, I'm gonna miss my friend.

10.02.2026 10:01 👍 364 🔁 91 💬 16 📌 5
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Monday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Crossing that bridge when we get to it

08.02.2026 07:06 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Wednesday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Inflation aggravation

03.02.2026 07:04 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Monday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Brendan the mind reader

01.02.2026 07:12 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
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Wednesday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Spying on the neighbours

27.01.2026 06:41 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Monday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Sprechen sie Australisch?

25.01.2026 07:14 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Wednesday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Hey Launnie, Park!

20.01.2026 07:23 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Monday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Don't wake the bear

18.01.2026 09:56 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Wednesday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: "No love lost" or "On the offense"

13.01.2026 06:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Monday's cartoon in the Mercury Newspaper: The feral invasion

11.01.2026 07:13 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Wednesday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Back to it.

06.01.2026 06:51 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Monday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Foul fishy florals

04.01.2026 07:00 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Wednesday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Acquired Tastes

30.12.2025 07:06 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Monday's cartoon for The Mercury Newspaper: Line Onyas

28.12.2025 07:12 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Fair enough. He’s on the ceiling because he’s in a Tasmanian cartoon, which is Down Under’s Down Under.

23.12.2025 09:19 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Magic!

23.12.2025 08:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Wednesday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: O Tassiebaum, O Tassiebaum!

23.12.2025 07:05 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0