LA unrest fuels US President’s fire
If inflaming every situation seems to be US President Donald Trump’s signature move, then immigration protests in Los Angeles struck the match in Mark Knight’s ‘Flaming Trump’ cartoon
Welcome to the world of award-winning Herald Sun cartoonist Mark Knight, who opens up each week about the stories behind the cartoons in our exclusive Kids News explainer series
If inflaming every situation seems to be US President Donald Trump’s signature move, then immigration protests in Los Angeles struck the match in Mark Knight’s ‘Flaming Trump’ cartoon
Political turmoil in Tasmania has put AFL’s newest team on the endangered species list as Mark Knight considers the fate of the state’s extinct thylacine as the Tassie Devils fight for their survival
It was love at second sight in Part Two of cartoonist Mark Knight’s Coalition saga, as the Liberal and National Party leaders decide they’re better together just a week after breaking up
Political life imitated reality TV this week after new Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley’s speed date with the National Party ended in a bad break up in Mark Knight’s homage to Farmer Wants a Wife
Cartoonist Mark Knight draws on the classic western plot of cowboys pulling pistols at dawn to capture the Liberal Party’s leadership vote – but is the female pioneer now on clean up duty?
Cartoonist Mark Knight transforms outgoing Greens leader Adam Bandt into a DJ whose dance party is abruptly unplugged as the 15 year veteran concedes defeat to Labor in the seat of Melbourne
Cartoonist Mark Knight’s four-letter wordplay speaks a thousand words as the humble casket of Pope Francis sat in stark contrast to two feuding presidents facing off in St Peter’s Square
The iconic Statue of Liberty is America’s great symbol of freedom and opportunity but Mark Knight’s cartoon imagines the US and Lady Liberty transformed by Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation’ tariffs
With the next federal election coming hot on the heels of the Budget, cartoonist Mark Knight wonders what voters will make of the Treasurer’s tiny $5 tax break during a cost of living crisis
You know that feeling when a song gets stuck in your head? So does cartoonist and Formula One fan Mark Knight, whose Melbourne Grand Prix called up an old Crowded House favourite
Excitement in Melbourne is at fever pitch for the Grand Prix but a darker current is stripping the sheen off life in the capital as Mark Knight’s cartoon reimagines youth crime as an F1 pit heist
US President Donald Trump’s second term has been full of hair-raising moments, but none as shocking as the aggressive meeting with Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy, says cartoonist Mark Knight
Donald Trump’s ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ vision for war-ravaged Gaza left the world spinning, but the US President’s past life as a property developer gave cartoonist Mark Knight an idea
The tragic loss of Australian teenagers Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles this past week was felt around the nation, as captured in cartoonist Mark Knight’s poignant picture of youth and beauty
Rural and working voters in the US presidential election popped the bubble of Washington DC’s political establishment with the prod of a pitchfork in Mark Knight’s take on American Gothic
The outcome of the US presidential election wasn’t known when an outsider won Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup against the odds but Mark Knight’s prophetic cartoon proved to be right on the money
From working class man to Chairman’s Lounge king, Anthony Albanese’s ‘man of the people’ pitch might not pass muster with the public amid the cost of living crisis in Mark Knight’s cartoon
The pomp and ceremony greeting Charles and Camilla in Canberra was no match for the not-so-warm welcome Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe threw down in Mark Knight cartoon
Herald Sun cartoonist and Kids News favourite Mark Knight has unveiled his AFL premierships posters for 2024 ahead of Saturday’s blockbuster match between the Lions and the Swans
Parents battling social media harm is like the Rebellion fighting the Death Star as Mark Knight channels Darth Vader’s much-needed voice of authority in tribute to the actor who voiced him
Wind is on the up as a renewable energy source but the wild weather across multiple states exposed a possible design flaw that had cartoonist Mark Knight imagining turbines taking off for real
AFL finals season has arrived after Carlton players and fans were brought back from the brink by Port Adelaide Power who delivered a lifesaving bolt into the Blues in Mark Knight’s cartoon
Russian President Vladimir Putin watches on perplexed in cartoonist Mark Knight’s take on Ukraine advancing across the border as Zelensky’s troops pull off strategic wins in the war
Australia’s performance at the Paris Olympics was our best ever but Mark Knight suggests it’s Rachael Gunn’s headline hogging kangaroo hopping in breakdancing that the world will remember
Mark Knight’s cartoon of our youngest ever gold medallist, 14-year-old Arisa Trew, show just how much (and how little) Games have changed as Ancient Greek marbles mingle with new legends
From River Seine to river stench, not even the dubious water quality of Paris’ famous waterway was enough to deter triathletes from attempting Olympic glory in Mark Knight cartoon
Collingwood fans are ‘suspended’ as they wait to see if the reigning premiers will even make it into the finals – a predicament well illustrated in this cliffhanger cartoon by Mark Knight
Seconds after US presidential hopeful Donald Trump survived the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, he seized the moment. Mark Knight’s cartoon captures him walking away not as a victim but as the clear election frontrunner
Cartoonist Mark Knight suggests cool heads are needed in the nuclear power debate after Liberal leader Peter Dutton’s policy announcement sent the political landscape into instant meltdown
Chest-beating construction union boss John Setka morphs into King Kong as AFL head umpire Steve McBurney awards a penalty against the angry gorilla in Mark Knight cartoon