Geoffrey Raynor Hook was an Australian artist and editorial cartoonist.
10 Facts About Jeff Hook
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Jeff Hook was married to Pauline from 1961 and had five children.
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Jeff Hook started his career as a press artist and part-time cartoonist on The Mercury, drawing under the name "Jeff".
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Jeff Hook moved to Melbourne and started at The Sun News-Pictorial in 1964.
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Jeff Hook became the full-time cartoonist for The Sun News-Pictorial.
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Jeff Hook first gained international recognition in 1967 for his cartoon about the end of the Six-Day War, "The three wiser men", which was re-published widely outside Australia, including in The London Times.
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In 1987, Jeff Hook won the award for Humorous Illustration in the Australian Black and White Artists Club's Bulletin Awards.
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Jeff Hook retired from the Herald Sun in early 1993, but continued to freelance, doing a regular editorial cartoon for the Sunday Herald Sun while devoting his time primarily to painting.
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Jeff Hook was a Life Member of the Australian Black and White Artists Club, a life Member of The Melbourne Press Club, a life member of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, a life governor of the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, and a patron of the Amputees Association of Victoria.
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Jeff Hook was a member of the Australian Guild of Realist Artists and the Peninsula Arts Society.