Shaun Salmon

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Shaun Lawrence Salmon (born 1965) is an Australian cartoonist.

Salmon was born in Farnborough, Hampshire, UK. He migrated with his family to Perth, Western Australia in 1981 and studied communications at Curtin University. He won the 1985 prize for Most Outstanding Student in Creative Writing. While at Curtin he published his first cartoons in Grok and created many theatre posters, as well as designing plays including Antigone and The Man in the Moon.

In 1988 The Eye published Salmon's cartoon work and he worked as a journalist for Eyeline magazine and Ryan Varcoe Stevens Advertising. He also began to sell his illustrative work to the corporate market.

In the 1990s Salmon worked with Arena Arts and Entertainment writing, directing, designing and performing a host of theatrical productions.

During this period he also began to write material for the comedic a cappella act Novak 'n Goode, as well as co-founding the Printscapes design studio.

Salmon also instigated the Lost In Space billboard cartoon project for Artrage and was a writer on Hit It Its Still Broadcasting, a radio comedy show on 6UVSFM, also through the auspices of Artrage

Since 2000 Salmon has become more heavily involved with humour: writing and performing parody cineslides, as well as creating many cartoons and humorous written pieces for the Over the Fence Comedy Film Festival from 2002.

He has also co-written, designed and performed in the humorous short films, Pumping Hearts and Spit It Out. From 2002-2006 his weekly cartoon strip 'All Our Yesterdays' was published in the Saturday edition of The West Australian. Shaun's cartoons also appear in Scoop, the Journal and the Walkley Magazine.

in 2005 Salmon and his partner Nikki Jones formed the band Late Night Shopping. They are working on their first album.