Anton Emdin (b. 2 April 1976) is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist from Sydney, Australia.
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Working as a freelance illustrator and cartoonist full time since 1995, Anton has drawn for numerous magazines, including the Australian editions of Rolling Stone, FHM, Ralph, People, Penthouse, and MAD (both Australian and US editions).
Amongst a bunch of educationals for schools, Anton has illustrated various books; standouts being the Graphic Classics series featuring Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ambrose Bierce and Edgar Allan Poe.
For commercial and advertising illustration work Anton is represented by The Drawing Book Illustration Agency and has worked with many large advertising agencies such as JWT, Ogilvy, and Saatchi & Saatchi for clients including Macquarie Bank, Luxbet, and Kelloggs, as well as many smaller companies and individuals.
In the early 1990s Anton started drawing underground comix and collaborated with Ross Tesoriero in his first mini-comic If Pain Persists.[4] Shortly after, he published his own comic Cruel World,[5] and was one of the first in the Australia underground scene to produce full colour covers and professionally printed pages. Unfortunately the high production value did not reflect the low-brow content! Cruel World ran to issue 8.
Throughout his life, Anton has continued to draw in the art and underground scene, contributing to books and comic anthologies such as Sick Puppy,[6] Phatsville,[7] Blackguard' [8]', Pure Evil,[9] and most recently, Blood and Thunder.[10]
Anton Emdin and Aisling (Ash) Kinchin were married in 2004 and have two children; Miles Emdin (b. 20 May 2006) and April Emdin (b. 25 April 2009). They live happily in Sydney's Inner West with Corkey the pug, and Johnny the cat.
Official Portfolio: Illustrations and Cartoons by Anton Emdin
Vault and Blog: Anton Emdin's Illustration and Cartooning Blog