Jeff Hook

[1] Geoffrey Raynor Hook OAM (27 December 1928[2] – 20 July 2018[3]) was an Australian artist and editorial cartoonist.

After attending St Virgil's College, Hobart, Hook started as a cadet press artist on the Hobart Mercury and completed a course in graphic arts at the Hobart Technical College (now Tasmanian School of Art, a faculty of the University of Tasmania) which included tuition in fine arts under Jack Carington Smith, Margaret Chandler, Harry Buckey and Edith Holmes.

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.

That continued until the year 2000, when he largely stopped cartooning after holding his first exhibition at the Australian Guild of Realist Artists (AGRA) gallery and pursued his love of painting full-time.

[8] In January 2012, he was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for "services to the print media as a political and social commentator, and as a cartoonist".