Judy Horacek
Judy Horacek is a well-known Australian cartoonist and writer. Horacek cartoons are found on greeting cards, tea towels, t-shirts, aprons, mugs and fridge magnets throughout the world. She also makes limited edition prints. Her work has appeared in the Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age and numerous magazines and journals.
Six collections of Judy’s work have been published, the most recent of which is Make Cakes Not War - it is due to be published in the USA by Andrews McMeel in September 2007. Her first picture book, Where is the Green Sheep? won the Children’s Book Council of the Year award for Early Childhood in 2005. Judy's beautiful new illustrated children's book, Growl, was recently published by Viking. Her new picture book for babies, My Feet, will be published by Penguin in March 2008.
She lives in Canberra.
Website: http://www.horacek.com.au/
Books by Judy Horacek
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Life on the Edge
Judy Horacek's first cartoon collection is spiky and political and very funny.
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Women with Altitude
Celebrating the rich absudities of contemporary living: Career advice, postmodernism, art analysis ('I don't know much about analysis but I know what I like") & making friends with your albatross.
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If the Fruit Fits
Judy Horacek takes up the 'epoch-ryphal' themes of our time - ecological holocaust, domestic disaster, career advice, the nature of art and office work, and how to deal with sticky yellow bits of paper.
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Unrequited Love
Unrequited Love is for anyone seeking requital - in love, in life or in personal politics. A book for both romantics and cynics, for the seriously lovelorn, the genuinely confused and the downright annoyed.
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I am woman hear me draw
The catalogue from Judy Horacek's exhibition at the National Museum of Australia contains characteristically wonderful, challenging, whimsical, hilarious and thoughtful cartoons about women's issues of all kinds.
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Make Cakes Not War
Let the inimitable Judy Horacek take you on a hilarious journey through the tiny tragedies, the daily miracles, and the bewildering absurdities of the contemporary world in this wonderful collection.
From the pertinent and profound to the silly and surreal, Make Cakes Not War is filled with witty, instantly recognisable pictures of our anxieties, our excesses, and our experiences with talking animals.
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Growl
Growl is a little monster. And little monsters love to GROWL! So what does little monster do when she's banned from growling? Will the neighbours agree to let her do the thing she loves most? How will Growl get her growl back?
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Where Is The Green Sheep?
Here is the blue sheep, and here is the red sheep. Here is the bath sheep, and here is the bed sheep. But where is the green sheep?
Winner Children's Book Council Book of the Year: Early Childhood, 2005
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These are my Feet
Discover all the things you can do and all the wonderful places your feet can take you. It's time to get up and join the fun!
Puffin Baby series
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