Shaun Yeo

Shaun Yeo (born 1974) is a New Zealand freelance cartoonist and illustrator living in Invercargill.

[5] In 2009, Yeo was a finalist at the Qantas Media Awards in the Best Art category[6] and in 2017 was named a finalist in the Cartoonist of the Year category at the Canon Media Awards.

[7] In 2018, he was named a finalist in both the Best Artwork/Graphics and Cartoonist of the Year categories at the Voyager Media Awards.

Since 2015, his work has been collected by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive, part of the Alexander Turnbull Library which wrote "... Yeo’s colourful work ... combines a comic art style with political and social commentary..."[10] Yeo's illustration "Crying Kiwi" was created in response to the Christchurch mosque shootings on 15 March 2019, and was widely printed and shared in the aftermath of the attacks.

Described as "perfectly capturing this shocking and horrendous tragedy",[11] in the first two days after the shootings it was viewed by 3.4 million people.

"Crying Kiwi", created in response to the death of 51 people in the Christchurch mosque shootings