Judy Horacek (born 12 November 1961) is an Australian cartoonist, artist, writer and children's book creator.
As she says, "I take every day situations and make them strange"[4] It was her interest in feminism which "drove Horacek's early work and established her reputation as a cartoonist".
Cartoonist Peter Nicholson describes her work as follows: For most of her professional life her cartoons have been more on the theme of people's everyday lives and worries.
You need a powerful imagination, a great sense of humour, a real understanding of the human condition and you must have something to say ... there is an advantage to this type of cartoon.
[5]Horacek's first commissioned work for The Age newspaper was published on International Women's Day 1995, next to the obituary of Senator Olive Zakharov.
She has since started writing her own children's books, the first being The Story of GROWL (2007), followed by "These are My Hands" (2008), "These are My Feet" (2009) and "Yellow is my favourite colour".
was published both in Australia and the USA in 2004 and has been translated into Spanish, Korean, simple Chinese, Hebrew, Krzg and two Australian Indigenous languages, Pitjantjatjara and Kriol.
Additionally, the Royal Australian Mint produced a commemorative 20 cent coin with a Horacek illustration derived from the original book.